WPS client implementation in R

I'm wondering what's the state of WPS (Web Processing Service) client
implementations in R? All I can find are the abstract of a 2008 UseR! talk:

https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2008/abstracts/Henneboehl+Pebesma.pdf

and what looks like code designed to call a custom WPS server in the GSIF
package:

https://github.com/cran/GSIF/blob/master/R/WPSworldgrids.R

for a server that doesn't seem to work at the moment (wps.worldgrids.org).

Any advance on those?

Barry

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Dear Barry,

I am not quite sure what you are targetting at:
i) a solution to expose (geo) R functionality as a WPS on the web or
ii) a R package to ease the access to an exposed WPS.

Regarding i), there is WPS4R (as a follow-up on the UseR! abstract;
available as part of the 52?North WPS bundle [1]) where annotated R scripts
can automatically be wrapped in a WPS process and exposed on the web (a
tutorial can be found here [2]).

In terms of ii), I am not aware of any existing solution, but would be
interested to contribute; possibly also as a GSoC project (I'll sketch the
idea on the 52N's GSoC 2018 project page [3]).

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Dr. Benedikt Gr?ler <
b.graeler at 52north.org>
wrote:

Dear Barry,

I am not quite sure what you are targetting at:
i) a solution to expose (geo) R functionality as a WPS on the web or
ii) a R package to ease the access to an exposed WPS.

Regarding i), there is WPS4R (as a follow-up on the UseR! abstract;
available as part of the 52?North WPS bundle [1]) where annotated R

scripts

can automatically be wrapped in a WPS process and exposed on the web (a
tutorial can be found here [2]).

In terms of ii), I am not aware of any existing solution, but would be
interested to contribute; possibly also as a GSoC project (I'll sketch

the

idea on the 52N's GSoC 2018 project page [3]).

I'm currently more interested in a WPS client for R, to call WPS services.

I think if I wanted to implement a WPS service in R I'd probably hook into
pywps, but that's just my python bias against a java solution! I admit the
52N solution looks pretty neat (annotate an R script and there you have
it).

thanks

Barry

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