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Rpy with ArcMap or Spatial Data

3 messages · A. Chapkowski, Alexander Brenning, Roger Bivand

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A. Chapkowski
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Are there any examples of RPy being used with ArcMap or any other
spatial software?

Thanks

A
1 day later
Alexander Brenning
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Hi,

there is an ArcGIS toolbox written by Mark Janikas from ESRI that links 
ArcGIS/ArcMap/ArcCatalog with R through Python. This is more like a 
proof-of-principle, it allows to access a point clustering method from R 
from within ArcGIS. Don't ask me for the details, but at least one of 
the two alternative approaches used is based on RPy.

http://resources.esri.com/geoprocessing/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&
scriptId=16444

On the other hand, the RPyGeo package for R uses Python (but not RPy!) 
to call ArcGIS tools from within R. Sort of a basic ArcGIS front-end in 
R, but it suffers from the long latency time of ArcGIS.

Cheers
  Alex
On 16/02/2010 10:50 AM, A. Chapkowski wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Alexander Brenning wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
I have posted references to MGET before:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GeoEco/0.6

but for me http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget/ is not responding now. 
There was plenty of code there, but I think using DCOM through Python 
rather than Rpy (or better Rpy2). Carson Farmer's Qgis plugin manageR does 
run through Rpy2, and so is a cross-platform interface. Using DCOM for 
ArcGIS does make some sense, as ArcGIS is most frequently found on 
platforms running DCOM.

Roger