[R-sig-Geo] Impact of ArcGIS 8.3 beta's new spatial statistical functions in its Spatial Analyst Extension

[Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov]

Paul,

Not to mention the huge cost of ESRI products and the fact that they run only on the MS-Windows platform. R also integrates well with GRASS GIS. Personally, I can not see any compelling reasons to go the ESRI route vs R/GRASS…

I feel a great debt of gratitude to the selfless developers of R & GRASS!

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Hiemstra <p.hiemstra at geo.uu.nl>
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:54 am
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Impact of ArcGIS 8.3 beta's new spatial statistical functions in its Spatial Analyst Extension

> Dear Hisaji,
> 
> I think that the choice of people for R is not only based on the 
> fact 
> that a certain method is only available in R. R is much more 
> flexible in 
> working with data, allows scripting, allows you to see exactly how 
> a 
> method works, allows you to extend or develop methods and if you 
> write 
> in script files it also provides a record of what you have done. 
> Apart 
> from spatial analysis, R also provides a very wide range of 
> "normal" 
> statistical methods that are not available in ArcGIS (linear 
> regression 
> and such).
> 
> So I don't think a lot of people will forsake R once a few more 
> methods 
> become available in ArcGIS.
> 
> regards,
> Paul
> 
> Hisaji ONO wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> >  What do you think about ArcGIS 8.3's new statistical
> > functions(Calculation of spatial or network, GWR,
> > Global/Local Moran, Gi etc.) in its Spatial Analyst
> > Extension described in
> > 
> http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/pdf/Whats_New_In_ArcGIS_93.pdf?>
> >  Current R's spdep's and spgwr's and others' end users
> > will loose interests of them and go to use ESRI's apart
> > from R's?
> >
> >  And will decrease activities of developments of
> > (geo)spatial data analysis tools in R?
> >
> >
> >
> >  Regards.
> >
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