[R-sig-Geo] Geospatial R Beginner Resources?

[G. Allegri]

Roger didn't say it but a good comprehensive book about spatial data
handling in R is coming out in the next 2-3 months:

"Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R"
http://www.springer.com/public+health/epidemiology/book/978-0-387-78170-9

I've already boked it...

giovanni

2008/6/26 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Eric Peterson wrote:
>
>> Is there a website/document/other that provides a good, basic, overview of
>> (A) the available libraries, (b) the processes they make available, and (c)
>> some demos of how to implement them?
>>
>> I am quite familiar and comfortable with regular use of R for 'standard'
>> statistical analyses and graph making.  In the past, I've had access to some
>> expensive remote sensing software as well as ESRI products for my Geospatial
>> work, including landscape analyses and remote sensing of vegetation.  My
>> current job has access only to the ESRI products, leaving me without much
>> for the remote sensing end of my work.  As I understand it, at least some
>> capabilities are now available in R, but will require a bit of work to
>> learn.  Although I am a little bit of a programmer capable of struggling
>> through most of my needs, I think it would take me several days of searching
>> through the package documents on the cran website to figure out just a few
>> basics.
>
> http://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial
>
> is one of now many Task View pages trying to give some guidance in the
> wealth of contributed packages. Please indicate whether it gets you started,
> and how it might be improved. You'll find examples on the help pages of the
> packages - try looking at them, pasting them into a running R session (with
> the required packages loaded), or running example() of a command with
> executable examples.
>
> Roger
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Eric
>> ---
>> Eric B. Peterson, Ph.D.
>> Vegetation Ecologist
>> California Native Plant Society
>>
>>
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