[R-sig-Geo] R / ArcGIS

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Edzer Pebesma wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I might succeed meeting with some ESRI / ArcGIS folks at AAG next week;
> I'm in touch with them in particular about linking R to ArcGIS.

Please also see this thread:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2012-February/057922.html

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/TemporalExtension

http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/temporal/

the code being Python-based.

>
> I would like to find out if any of you has been successful (or
> unsuccessful) in reading or writing ArcGIS geodatabase files directly
> from R, by using the rgdal driver, or by some other means.
>
> Another issue is reading/writing spatio-temporal features  (netcdf does
> spatio-temporal grids/arrays pretty well it seems); rumours go that
> ArcGIS might, in the near future, support reading/writing SpatiaLite.
>
> With best regards,
>

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