[Insight-users] Accessing ITK from R

[Brandon Whitcher]

Badri,

Good question.  I think "wrappers" are the name of the game.

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

     www.R-project.org (click on "Manuals", then "Writing R Extensions")

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.

Brandon

2009/7/30 Badri Roysam <roysam at ecse.rpi.edu>

> I am curious as to what form such an integration would take. Are we talking
> about wrapping?
>
> Badri Roysam
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> Troy, NY 12180, USA.
> email: Roysam at ecse.rpi.edu, office: 518-276-8067.
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>
> On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:43 PM, "Don Bigler"<dcb210 at psu.edu> wrote:
>
>  Brandon,
>>  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.
>> Don
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