[R-sig-Geo] Using SJava?

[Timothy H. Keitt]

Another way to go is to embed R in other applications. I stumbled on
JUMP (http://www.vividsolutions.com/jump/) the other day. Looks like the
dawn of quality open source GIS is around the corner.

T.

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:56, Roger Bivand wrote:
> Is anyone on this list using SJava or any R/Java connection? Not only is
> the JTS Topology Suite that Tim just mentioned interesting, but so is the
> upcoming GeoTools2 at http://www.geotools.org/. Both are likely to be used 
> quite a lot, and thus probably well-maintained.
> 
> At the recent Association of American Geographers meeting, Frank Hardisty
> asked me about this, and while I was able to install SJava (from
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin) on a Win XP laptop, we were not able
> to see how to get Java within R to see GeoTools in its classpath.  Both of
> these Java resources are potentially useful, and R opinions two or three
> years ago, that Java is slow, may need revision given increased machine
> capacity. I feel we could benefit from mobilizing Java insight (but I feel
> personally Java-challenged!).
> 
> I believe that Duncan Temple-Lang was playing with/working on object 
> discovery - this could be very relevant in terms of matching R-internal 
> object representations with those in existing software that we could - if 
> SJava worked - link to. I also think that we could ask him for advice if 
> we discussed it first here. What do others think?
-- 
Timothy H. Keitt
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.keittlab.org/