[R-sig-Geo] R packages to performs geospatial analisys.

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote:

> Massimo, I would at least include those on the Spatial task view, at 
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html and merge the full list 
> there with your list.
>
> In your list, for instance, geoR and geoRglm are missing.

Yes, the task view is more up to date than the book for obvious reasons - 
the book reflects a subset of the packages available in early 2008, and 
more have come in since. Existing packages like spatstat have make big 
advances, for example regarding class coercion, that are not in the book, 
and other packages now have (more) vignettes.

Please do, however, subset out the recommended packages, for instance by:

installed.packages(priority="high")[,"Package"]

from your list, as they should be installed with R-base.

Watch out for possible problems caused by the binary installer for the 
GRASS GDAL plugin in installing Qgis - there have been reports of version 
clashes.

Good luck in Sydney!

Roger

PS. FOSS4G 2010 will be in Barcelona in September.

> --
> Edzer
>
> Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> i'm working on a live-dvd linux based that will contain some  geospatial 
>> sofware
>> it will be official presented at foss4g 2009 in Sydney. [1]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm adding some R packages into the dvd and i choose to install this 
>> packages :
>> 
>> r-base rkward rpy2 (qgis plig-in for R)
>> 
>> and r-packages :
>> 
>> echo 'packagelist <-

>> c("adapt","boot","class","classInt","coda","DCluster","digest","e1071",
>> "epitools","foreign","gpclib","graph","gstat","lattice","lmtest","maps",
>> "maptools","Matrix","mgcv","nlme","pgirmess","pkgDepTools","R2WinBUGS",
>> "RandomFields","RBGL","RColorBrewer","rgdal","Rgraphviz","sandwich","sp",
>> "spam","spatialkernel","spatstat","spdep","spgrass6","spgwr","splancs",
>> "tripack","xtable","zoo")

>> for (i in packagelist) {
>>      install.packages(i, repos= "http://cran.r-project.org", lib = "/ 
>> usr/local/lib/R/site-library/" , dependencies = TRUE)
>> }' > /tmp/installRpackages.r
>> 
>> sudo R CMD BATCH /tmp/installRpackages.r
>> 
>> 
>> i read the list from the great book dedicated to R and spatial  analisys 
>> writen by Bivand, Roger S., Pebesma, Edzer J., Gómez-Rubio,  Virgilio  [2]
>> please check the package list and tell me if i'm missing a package  that 
>> you should see on the live dvd.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Massimo Di Stefano.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://2009.foss4g.org/
>> [2] 
>> http://www.springer.com/public+health/epidemiology/book/978-0-387-78170-9
>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
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