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

[C.Cagatay Bilgin]

I just want to reply to the "why is it needed part"
The R language is used very commonly among
the statisticians and actually this is what wikipedia
says about it:

"The R language has become a de facto standard among
statisticians for the development of statistical software,[4][5]
and is widely used for statistical software development and
data analysis."

Best regards,
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Cemal Cagatay Bilgin,
Ph.D Candidate in Computer Science Department at RPI
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On Jul 29, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Badri Roysam wrote:

> 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
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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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
>>
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