[R] Re: R(D)-COM stat conenctor for ArcGIS

[Virgilio Gómez Rubio]

Hi,


>  I heard about "R(D)-COM Stat connector" for ArcGIS, but i am not 
>    sure what that is. I did a search in the archive but it seems i am 
>    not getting anything back. 
>    can anybody explain me what that is, and where i can find more 
>    info about it? There is any possibility to run R from inside 
>ArcGIS? 

Yes, it is possible. I have made some trivial tests (1+1 :D) and it
worked as expected (=2). But, definitively, you can use R from within
ArcGIS. I am planning, in the near future, to try to write something
to link ArcGIS and R (mostly like the R-Excel interface). But first
I have to learn a bit more about ArcObjects...

So far, I know that R(D)-COM has been usually by other. Take a look
at 
http://www.gisig.it/coastgis/programma/abstract/astad.htm


>    there is more than RArcInfo and Shapefile which can import 
>these 
>    kind of files in R environment?

Roger S. Bivand has set up this great web site about R and spatial
statistics and data analysis:

http://sal.agecon.uiuc.edu/csiss/Rgeo/index.html


Hope it works,

-- 
             Virgilio Gómez Rubio

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