[R-sig-Geo] Any plans to provide access to CGAL in R?

[Robin Lovelace]

Hi all,

I've just been made aware of the CGAL <http://www.cgal.org/> C++ library
for computational geometry.

It seems to be able to do some things that may be useful to some readers of
of this list, as outlined in this overview of a syllabus based on CGAL:
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2930000/2927362/a8-alliez.pdf

I've found some non-CRAN packages that link to it but nothing that seems to
provide access to all CGAL functions (listed below). Any ideas if there are
plans afoot for this or even if it's worth doing?


   - http://kien-kieu.github.io/lite/rlite.html
   - https://github.com/rcqls/EBSpatCGAL

There is also TDA on CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TDA/index.html

And a C++ library that claims to support it for simple features (found by
looking for support in QGIS): https://github.com/Oslandia/SFCGAL

Plus a question on StackExchange:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14463590/cgal-tools-is-there-an-interface-to-cgal-or-equivalent-toolset-in-r

Thanks in advance,

Robin

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