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Re: [Gnumed-devel] user contributed report


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] user contributed report
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:06:28 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:37:39AM +1000, Tim Churches wrote:

> >>> For that we'd have to add post-processing to query results
> >>> and import an R binding. Which can be done but needs work to
> >>> get done.
> >> That's not too hard. I did this for my thesis. Just use rpy bindings and 
> >> you 
> >> can manipulate data all you want. Just have a script run the queries and 
> >> work 
> >> with the data. used it to calculate some statistics and plot the data with 
> >> gnuplot.  
> 
> Surely if you transfer the query results to R you would plot the results
> with R? It has much better statistical features than gnuplot.
Oh, the whole thing was scripted. What Sebastian did was
pipe data from PostgreSQL into R for doing some statistics.
The *results* were piped into gnuplot for plotting only.

> I should also point out NetEpi analysis, which uses R via Rpy for these
> things. Perhaps an automated GNUmed importer can be developed - we are
> working on that for other data sources (currently you have to write an
> import script by hand).
That's of course the real thing to do. *My* plan is not to go
much beyond what we currently have in terms of analysis
features. The report plugin will stay what it is - a tool to
do "fairly simple" reports. If a clever user augments that
by pimping PostgreSQL with pl/R, fine, but for anything
sophisticated I suggest using any number of third party
report generators -- such as NetEpi ;-)

Writing another one makes as much sense as writing another,
say, Plone clone.

Karsten
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