[R-sig-Geo] Calling R from QGIS

Virgilio Gómez-Rubio virgilio.gomez at uclm.es
Tue Oct 25 17:51:58 CEST 2011


El mar, 25-10-2011 a las 15:32 +0200, Gerald JtB escribió:
> The SEXTANTE-library should be another possibility.
> http://sextante.forge.osor.eu/index.html

And they have just released an R-Sextante interface:

http://sextantegis.blogspot.com/2011/10/r.html

Best,

Virgilio

> 
> (I used it for ArcGIS only so far, but there seems to be a QGIS-plugin)
> http://users.qgis.org/planet/user/6/tag/sextante/
> 
> with best regards
> Gerald
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 10/24/2011 02:06 PM, Sandeep Patil wrote:
> > > Hello everyone
> > >
> > > I searched for this question online but could not find a satisfactory
> > > answer.
> > >
> > > How many of you use Quantum GIS and R together . I want to access as much
> > >
> > > R functionality through QGIS as possible to manipulate my data within
> > >
> > > QGIS itself. Any advice welcome.
> > >
> > > I tried a plugin called ManageR but it is having some issues and cant be
> > > installed properly.
> > >
> > > Essentially what is the best tool out there that can help me
> > >
> > > get the best of both worlds QGIS and R integrating them in different ways
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Sandeep
> > >
> >
> > ManageR really is the easiest way, the key is getting rpy2 installed
> > properly (thats the python to R bridge). You have to do that step
> > yourself ManageR does not install that lib for you. Sometimes it's also
> > necessary to tweak the PATH variable (On Windows). If you email on the
> > qgis-user list we can try to troubleshoot that part of the install.
> >
> > Aside from that you can load almost any spatial dataset directly in R
> > with the rgdal package. Manipulate, save back out to whatever format you
> > prefer and then visualize it in QGIS.
> >
> > I tend to use spatialite and postgis heavily as I can then also pull any
> > table information I want via SQL commands in R with the RSQlite and
> > RPostgresql packages.
> >
> > Enjoy,
> > Alex
> >
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