WMS, WFS, WCS an WPS for R

Interesting question!

Of course, all these are services, and R is not typically a service or a 
client, but rather an environment to do statistical computing. Reading 
and writing can, as mentioned, be done to some extent through OGR (WFS, 
e.g. by writing gml) and GDAL (WCS, reading). Note that gml has many 
versions, and the more recent ones are typically monsters of complexity; 
OSGEO seems to support mainly older versions or subsets for specific 
application areas. WMS is more something of an output, useful for those 
who want to see the map rather than have the data.

We're currently working in the intamap project (http://www.intamap.org) 
to provide R interpolation facilities through a web processing standard, 
which basically means GIS (or any other) processing through an OGC 
complient web service (WPS, as opposed to e.g. SOAP). Here, R does the 
back end work, and the WPS front-end takes care of input (an O&M, 
observations and measurements document, xml) and output (gml for 
geometry, UncertML for probability distributions). If someone is 
interested in testing this, please let me know.

Other OGC services to check out are those in the SWE area: SOS, SPS, 
SAS, this list is growing faster than an adult can learn remembering 
abbreviations.
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Edzer

WMS, WFS, WCS an WPS for R

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