[Insight-users] Accessing ITK from R (www.r-project.org)

[Badri Roysam]

Brandon, I think the need for statistical computing and graphics is pervasive, so I am
interested to learn more about R. One thing that worries me is the need to deal with yet another
language (why is it needed?). It would be nice to have a C++ or Python based
statistics and statistical graphics tools. All the best,


Badri Roysam
Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Associate Director, NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems (CenSSIS ERC)
Co-Director, Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Whitcher [mailto:bwhitcher at gmail.com]
To: insight-users at itk.org
Subject: [Insight-users] Accessing ITK from R (www.r-project.org)


> ITK users,
> 
> With the success of MATITK (matitk.cs.sfu.ca), I would like to know if
> anyone is interested in enabling similar functionality in the open-source R
> programming environment (www.r-project.org).  There is a growing community
> of medical imaging analysis experts who use R and I believe the two projects
> would benefit greatly from the sharing capabilities.
> 
> There has been some work by researchers at the Sandia National Laboratory
> with merging VTK and R
> 
>      https://www.kitware.com/InfovisWiki/index.php/R_Titan_Integration
> 
> ...and I hope that those researchers will eventually share code.
> 
> Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in participating in
> this project -- or -- if you would find such a package useful in your
> research.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Brandon Whitcher
>