用于 OPC UA 的 R 包

Question

. Answers to this question are eligible for a +100 reputation bounty. J_F wants to to this question.

I would like to know if someone works on a package for R using the OPC-UA communication standard. I found no R-package on CRAN and also on GitHub.

My idea is to to some real-time analysis of data send by a OPC-UA server.

There are some python packages but I don´t know if R is the appropriate language for this network protocol.

In my opinion R would be great to visualize data and analyze them.

Answer 1

There is no native OPC UA client for R; however, you can get OPC data into your R application in a variety of ways.

• Use a commercial or write an OPC UA Client to log data into an SQL database and get it from there using R.
  • https://integrationobjects.com/sioth-opc/sioth-opc-data-archiving/opc-client-for-microsoft-sql-server/
  • https://www.striim.com/integrations/opc-ua-microsoft-sql-server/
  • https://openautomationsoftware.com/knowledge-base/log-opc-ua-data-database/
• Use a commercial or write an OPC UA Client to provide a REST interface and get it from there using R.
  • https://openautomationsoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-to-access-opcua-data-rest-api/
  • https://products.softwaretoolbox.com/opc-router/visual-workflow-opc-iiot-sap-database-integration-software
• Use a commercial or write an OPC UA Client to write data to a .txt or .csv file and get it from there using R.
  • https://openautomationsoftware.com/knowledge-base/log-opc-ua-csv-excel/
  • https://integrationobjects.com/sioth-opc/sioth-opc-data-archiving/opc-logger-for-csv/
  • https://opcexpert.com/opc-to-excel/
• Write an OPC UA Client in .NET and call it from your R application.
  • Calling .NET/C# from R
  • Is it possible call a COM object from within R, if the COM object is exposed from a .NET assembly?
  • Call R (programming language) from .net
• Write an OPC UA Client in Go and call it from your R application.
  • https://github.com/gopcua/opcua
  • https://purrple.cat/blog/2017/06/09/go-packages-in-r-packages/
• Same can be done with Python, C, etc.

Personally, I think it would be the easiest to use a database. OPC Foundation provides a .NET Core stack where you can add your own R driver.