[Insight-users] Wrapping R with SimpleITK

[Richard Beare]

Hi,
I am also very interested in this - it is one of my long term, but
very background, ITK plans. My interest stems from a proprietary R
imaging package I wrote back in R 0.9 days. I'm keen to attempt to
test whatever you get running.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
<blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is great there is so much interest in R with SimpleITK!
>
> We have a weekly TCON on SimpleITK wednesdays at 9:30am. I think that it
> would be best if those interested in R and SimpleITK could all get together
> to discuss what needs to be done to fully support R. This week we need to
> focus on resolving some issues before the release scheduled for next week.
>
> So I'd like to propose that we have a TCON next Wednesday on R and
>  SimpleITK. Please let me know if this time will work for you.
>
> Brad
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:02 AM, brian avants wrote:
>
> hi everyone
>
> we've been working on this as well --- actually, mainly shrinidhi
> (cc'd).  he's got simpleitk => R compilation set up with cmake and
> more or less ready to go as an R package.  the package needs to be
> filled out, though, with R friendly wrapper functions.    i will
> discuss again with him tomorrow.
>
> brian
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Brandon Whitcher <bwhitcher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Wes and Bradley,
>
>
> I know we've gone silent on the R <-> ITK front, I'm still trying to find
>
> someone who will do the heavy lifting.
>
>
> Just to let you (and the other ITK list users) that the annual R users
>
> meeting will be at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, from 12-15 June.
>
>
>     http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
>
>
> Abstracts are being accepted until 12 March.  It would be a great way of
>
> promoting ITK to the R community!
>
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
>
> cheers...
>
>
> Brandon
>
>
>
> On 4 January 2012 17:42, Wes Turner <wes.turner at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>
> I agree with Bradley that it should be part of the SimpleITK Package.
>
> IMHO, it is too integral to the full functioning of the ITK to R interface
>
> to keep separate.
>
>
> Here are the pointers to the VTK versions of the routines.  We will need
>
> to change it to use ITK arrays instead, but that should not be too
>
> difficult.  I am not sure how optimized these are, but once we get the
>
> functionality encapsulated and into SimpleITK, we can work on optimization.
>
>
> Basic data conversion:
>
>
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Graphics/vtkRAdapter.cxx;h=d6049a5eb748f878df56d40b4c82aeec7fc51471;hb=HEAD
>
>
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Graphics/vtkRAdapter.h;h=83a2a833c18d8d8ce36d1f4e77e5cf12b5d2c217;hb=HEAD
>
>
> Interface to the R Interpreter (probably not needed)
>
>
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Graphics/vtkRAdapter.h;h=83a2a833c18d8d8ce36d1f4e77e5cf12b5d2c217;hb=HEAD
>
>
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Graphics/vtkRInterface.h;h=e98ce921b5a16c5299fdb8cccbb29793fcd8989b;hb=HEAD
>
>
> Pipeline encapsulation (probably not needed)
>
>
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Graphics/vtkRCalculatorFilter.cxx;h=bdc99183fb2a6b949228fcadbed63e4a9f0e9d9a;hb=HEAD
>
>
> http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=blob;f=Graphics/vtkRCalculatorFilter.h;h=08f43d42b724a608cc37fdba1268875dab7ceba8;hb=HEAD
>
>
> - Wes
>
>
>
>
> ========================================================
>
> Bradley Lowekamp
>
> Medical Science and Computing for
>
> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>
> National Library of Medicine
>
> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
>
>
>
>
>
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