Badri,<br><br>Good question. I think "wrappers" are the name of the game.<br><br>I am an R user, not an ITK user, so my selfish vision of this project is to create an R software package that provides access to ITK functions directly through R. I (naively) assume that C "wrapper" code will have to be written in order to pass R data structures to the ITK pre-compiled libraries and then provide the resulting data structures back to R. The R user would only need to install the software package (maybe full ITK also, but I hope not) and start typing commands in R. More details on how R allows access to the outside world can be found at<br>
<br> <a href="http://www.R-project.org">www.R-project.org</a> (click on "Manuals", then "Writing R Extensions")<br><br>One could also allow communication in the other direction; i.e., ITK users to access R functionality. Mechanisms for this may also be found in the PDF document above, but I am only interested in the R -> ITK direction.<br>
<br>Brandon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/30 Badri Roysam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roysam@ecse.rpi.edu">roysam@ecse.rpi.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am curious as to what form such an integration would take. Are we talking about wrapping?<br>
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Badri Roysam<br>
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email: <a href="mailto:Roysam@ecse.rpi.edu" target="_blank">Roysam@ecse.rpi.edu</a>, office: 518-276-8067.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:43 PM, "Don Bigler"<<a href="mailto:dcb210@psu.edu" target="_blank">dcb210@psu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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Brandon,<br>
I believe integration of ITK with open-source statistical packages like R is a worthy endeavor. I've toyed with the idea myself for some time, but I have not had the time to implement a solution. Perhaps the best way to implement and disseminate something like this is through the Insight Journal. Regardless, keep me posted as to any further progress you make in this endeavor.<br>
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