[R-sig-Geo] [Qgis-user] Qgis and R ?

[Barry Rowlingson]

G. Allegri wrote:
> Ok, but I don't think you need a GDAL/OGR driver. Rgdal+sp do already 
> the work. You need come code to couple the pieces, like the spgrass6 
> package [1] do for Grass.
> 

  So you are sitting in front of QGis and there's some R-spatial objects 
sitting in a .RData file. How do we get that into QGis?

  How about the user selects an option 'Load R-spatial Data Object', 
browses the .RData file and chooses the object, then Rpy uses RGdal 
converts it to a shapefile or raster, then QGis loads that in? Is that 
the solution you are thinking of?

  That's an easy solution, but it's a looser coupling than being able to 
read R-spatial objects directly, and it requires an extra file creation. 
  Code-wise it's quite straightforward... I already have an R object 
browser written in PyQt and Rpy!

Barry