[R-sig-Geo] reading thematic data in R

[Edzer J. Pebesma]

Narendran Kodandapani wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am modeling occurrence of forest fires in a
> landscape.  I am planning to apply logistic
> regressions.  I have a number of thematic layers, how
> do I import the data into R.  I am exploring rgdal,
> somehow the .tar.gz does not install properly.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Naren

Which format are your data in, currently? On which
platform do you try to install rgdal? Do you install
from source, or binary? If you install from source,
it is assumed that you installed the gdal library
ahead of installing rgdal.

If your data are in asciigrid format you can import
them using function read.asciigrid() which is (currently)
part of package sp.

Best regards,
-- 
Edzer