Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-15 Thread Benjamin Weber
st majority of R users. > > The development of R per se is primarily driven by the needs of the core > developers and those around them.  Other R communities have sent up their > own special-interest groups and sets of packages, and that would seem the > way forward here. > > >

Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-14 Thread Benjamin Weber
nmental Data Connector (EDC) that >> > provides a GUI from with R (and ArcGIS, Matlab and Excel) that allows you >> > to subset data that is served by OPeNDAP, ERDDAP, certain Sensor >> > Observation Service (SOS) servers, and have it read directly into R. It is >> &

Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-14 Thread Benjamin Weber
cience journals that today pressure > authors of papers to put the data behind their published paper in the public > domain, downloadable from their web site, etc. > > >      IMHO. >      Spencer > > > On 1/13/2012 3:39 PM, Benjamin Weber wrote: >> >> The who

Re: [R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-13 Thread Benjamin Weber
The whole issue is related to the mismatch of (1) the publisher of the data and (2) the user at the rendezvous point. Both the publisher and the user don't know anything about the rendezvous point. Both want to meet but don't meet in reality. The user wastes time to find the rendezvous point define

[R] The Future of R | API to Public Databases

2012-01-13 Thread Benjamin Weber
Dear R Users - R is a wonderful software package. CRAN provides a variety of tools to work on your data. But R is not apt to utilize all the public databases in an efficient manner. I observed the most tedious part with R is searching and downloading the data from public databases and putting it i