[Qgis-user] Qgis and R ?
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