[R-sig-Geo] About Insightful's S-Plus "SpatialStats" package

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Hisaji ONO wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Recently Insightful's S-Plus library has been ported to R
> package.
>
> However "SpatialStats" package still not yet.

Insightful have added R-style packages to S-Plus, so that R contributed 
packages can be built for S-Plus, rather than the other way round. There 
may be interest in providing some R-spatial packages for S-Plus; sp and 
gstat have been built for S-Plus in the past. I am not aware of Insightful 
considering releasing the SpatialStats module in other forms.

>
> Does Anyone know whether Insightful people will open
> their spatial package including MA function(spdep not
> supported) etc

spautolm() now has MA support, thanks to a generous contribution by Jielai 
Ma, family="SMA", but for obvious reasons, no sparse matrix support, so 
only for up to moderate numbers of observations (say 1500+). "CAR" and 
"SAR" can be used with sparse matrix methods.

Best wishes,

Roger

>
>
> Regards.
>
>

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