[R-sig-eco] Sources for learning mapping/GIS with R?

[Dave Roberts]

R and GRASS can both be made to talk to the same database (I use 
PostgreSQL) at the same time, allowing you you to use the best tool for 
each job and keep everything in sync.

You might also want to look at

http://pvanb.wordpress.com/

and Dylan Beaudette at

http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/905

Dave Roberts

On 10/25/2011 11:58 AM, Marcelino de la Cruz wrote:
>
> Also, for open source GIS ( GRASS and R)
>
> Neteler, M., Mitasova, H., 2008. Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS
> Approach, 3rd Edt. Springer, The International Series in Engineering
> and Computer Science: Volume 773. 406 p.
>
> By the way, you can find a lot of useful resources in the home page
> of Tomislav Hengl:
> http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> Cheers,
> Marcelino
>
>
> At 19:47 25/10/2011, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>> There's a spatial taskview that's the perfect place to start:
>> installing the taskview will
>> give you very nearly all the related packages.
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html
>>
>> For learning how to use them, Bivand et al's Spatial Analysis book is good:
>> http://books.google.com/books/about/Applied_spatial_data_analysis_with_R.html?id=4gg8yx_lcj0C
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Raphael Mazor<raphaelm at sccwrp.org>  wrote:
>>> Can anyone recommend some basic resources for learning how to create maps
>>> with R?
>>> Or recommend packages that are particularly helpful?
>>>
>>> Thanks!--

>>>
>> --
>> Sarah Goslee
>> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>>
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