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Hi all.
This mine may be a stupid question-in case, please forgive me.
R has a very nice mechanism with which the program itself
downloads a required addon from the cran repository, compile it, and
installs. The user then is not required to recompile the main program every
time (s)he has to use a non-standard module, and does not depend on packagers
(who may not be interested in packaging a rarely used modult). This makes R a
very open environment, and as a result the number of addons increases
constantly.
Would it be feasible to implement such a mechanism in grass, perhaps using
code from R?
All the best.
pc
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I second this as a great idea. Of course it needs a volunteer to develop
this.
Michael
On 12/8/04 11:58 PM, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:
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Hi all.
This mine may be a stupid question-in case, please forgive me.
R has a very nice mechanism with which the program itself
downloads a required addon from the cran repository, compile it, and
installs. The user then is not required to recompile the main program every
time (s)he has to use a non-standard module, and does not depend on packagers
(who may not be interested in packaging a rarely used modult). This makes R a
very open environment, and as a result the number of addons increases
constantly.
Would it be feasible to implement such a mechanism in grass, perhaps using
code from R?
All the best.
pc
- --
Paolo Cavallini
cavallini@faunalia.it www.faunalia.it www.faunalia.com
Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
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