[Rd] using Paraview "in-situ" with R?

[George Ostrouchov]

Thanks for adding more explanation. As Ivan Krylov mentioned earlier, this sounds like an idea for developing an R package. The viewers and R largely operate in communities that so far have little interaction and both can benefit from ideas in the other. 

George

> On Jan 11, 2024, at 6:30 AM, Mike Marchywka <marchywka using hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I take it though you see "R" in this role as adding to the capabilities of 
> the viewers, maybe adding some quick model fits over FEM results or something?
> Right now I was imagining working with freefem and rolling my own c++ code
> with supporting use of R code. Ideally I could easily overlay stuff without
> messing around with temp files.  There are a lot of R things, probably
> optimizations etc, that may be nice to view as they progress
> with more than just a figure of merit. 
> Right now I'm just trying to use Runge-Kutta on a simple orbit 
> and the mjmdatascope output is much more useful on-the-fly 
> than text or after the fact.
> 
> 
>  Mike Marchywka 
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> ________________________________________
> From: George Ostrouchov <georgeost using gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 3:06 PM
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> Cc: Mike Marchywka
> Subject: Re:  [Rd] using Paraview "in-situ" with R?
> 
> At ORNL, we worked with VisIt (a sibling of Paraview, both funded largely by DOE) around 2016 and made an in situ demo with R. We used packages pbdMPI (on CRAN) and pbdDMAT (on GitHub/RbigData), which were in part built for this purpose. Later also the package hola (on GitHub/RbigData) was built to connect with adios2, which can do buffered in situ connections with various codes.
> 
> But the VisIt developers were not interested in R (preferring to roll their own), so that direction fizzled. Paraview is a competetive sibling of VisIt, so I don’t know if they would be interested. The packages we developed are viable for that purpose. There is a lot in R that could benefit Paraview (or VisIt).
> 
> George
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>> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 14:20:17 +0000
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>> I had previously asked about R interfaces to various "other" visualization
>> tools specifically lightweights for monitoring progress of
>> various codes. I was working on this,
>> 
>> https://github.com/mmarchywka/mjmdatascope
>> 
>> but in the meantime found out that Paraview has an "in-situ"
>> capability for similar objectives.
>> 
>> https://discourse.paraview.org/t/does-or-can-paraview-support-streaming-input/13637/9
>> 
>> While R does have a lot of plotting features,
>> it seems like an excellent tool to interface to R allowing visualization without
>> a bunch of temp files or
>> 
>> Is anyone aware of anyone doing this interface or reasons its  a boondoggle?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Marchywka
>> 44 Crosscreek Trail
>> Jasper GA 30143
>> was 306 Charles Cox Drive  Canton, GA 30115
>> 470-758-0799
>> 404-788-1216
>> 
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