[R-sig-Geo] Geos library

[Timothy H. Keitt]

Yes, its pretty rough now. I haven't run it myself, but have studied the
code a bit. I'm encouraged by the integration with eclipse and large
amount of code sharing across projects because of geotools2/geoAPI. I
have gotten JUMP (http://www.jump-project.org/) working and it looks OK.
I'm not sold though on it being swing based and having a relatively poor
architecture. My money is on UDIG in about a years time. I think we'll
see lots of momentum there. That motivated my suggestion of trying to be
compatible with geotools & UDIG.

T.

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:15, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> 
> > Yes, this is a key point. R could be converted into a pretty good GIS
> > platform, but how many would use it? Perhaps better is to hook R into a
> > client like UDIG (http://udig.refractions.net/). I'm imagining opening a
> > UDIG session for spatial preprocessing and then attaching an R session
> > with access to the UDIG data structures for model fitting. Of course,
> > one would still need proxy classes covering the geotools api.
> 
>   Have you got UDIG working? I've installed (I think) the java prereqs 
> and other packages, including the Eclipse stuff referred to as the RCP 
> Runtime Library. However the docs then go:
> 
>   * Unzip the RCP Runtime Binary where you would like to install UDIG 0.3
>   * Download UDIG 0.3 is and unzip it into your RCP Runtime Binary folder
>   * Run udig and enjoy
> 
>   Yet the precise meaning of 'run udig' isn't given. There's a few jars 
> here and there, but no startup shell script....
> 
> Baz
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Timothy H. Keitt
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.keittlab.org/