#2999: Remove r.statistics module and prepare documentation for its removal
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Reporter: wenzeslaus | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.0.0
Component: Raster | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: r.statistics, r.stats.zonal, | CPU: Unspecified
r.stats.quantile, r.stats, r.mode, r.univar, |
documentation |
Platform: Unspecified |
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Glynn C ([GRASS-dev] r.statistics in G7, March 28, 2014):
> Martin L:
> > after discussion in OSGeo Vienna Code Sprint -
> > `r.statistics2` has been renamed in trunk to `r.stats.zonal` and
> > `r.statistics3` to `r.stats.quantile`
>
> In which case, r.statistics should probably be removed altogether.
>
> It has been (almost completely) superseded by the other two modules (a
> fact which is less likely to be noticed in light of the renaming).
>
> The only functionality which isn't available via the other modules is
> the mode calculation. The main reason being that the new modules
> assume floating-point data (r.statistics uses r.stats which is based
> upon categories), for which the concept of "mode" isn't particularly
> meaningful.
It seems to me that the mode calculation is now available in `r.mode`, so
there is no reason to keep `r.statistics`. Since it is removal of a
module, we might not be able in version 7 unless somebody has some idea
how to do it without breaking the interface.
In the meantime, we should remove links to `r.statistics` from other
modules, improve their documentation (`r.statistics` has better docs then
the other modules), and put some info to `r.statistics` that is is
depreciated (we probably don't have a clear way how to do that). This
might be nice to have even for 7.0.4, so if somebody volunteers to do
that, it would be great, I won't get to this in the following weeks.
Finally, we should be checking if `r.statistics` can be really removed. If
somebody is using it, please speak up.
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