Hello List,

 

I'm a very new user to the R system.  I'm only beginning to learn the
basics, but so far I've been able to do little more than try a few examples,
and of course begin reading the documentation.

 

My primary motivation for exploring R is the availability of tools like the
'spdep' package for calculating spatial statistics such as Geary's C and
Moran's I, which I would like to use in an analysis for my thesis.  However,
I am not really sure how to get started.  

 

As a simple example, if I have a table with columns containing an ID field,
X & Y coordinates, and an observation value, what steps should I follow to
pre-process this data in order to use the moran() function?  I've been able
to duplicate the example in the help documentation (e.g.,
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/spdep/html/moran.html), but without
understanding what the commands really do, I'm unable to proceed much
further.  How might I figure out the data that gets loaded when I run
'data(oldcol)' for example?  

 

Is there anyone that might be able to give me some tips, or point me in the
right direction?

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Mike


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