[R-sig-Geo] R and GIS

[Julian Burgos]

Hi Marco,
Depending on what you have to do, you may not need a GIS.  R has now 
many "GIS-like" features.  I now use R for 98% of my work, and use GRASS 
and QGIS mostly to process large datasets and as interactive 
visualization tools.  But all analyses and plotting (for publications or 
reports) is done in R.
This is a good start:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-78171-6?MUD=MP
Look the first section of the book, in particular.
Good luck!

Julian

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On 11/07/2012 07:17 PM, marco milella wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm interested in the analysis of spatial data with R and I'm completely
> new to the world of GIS. However, I would like to try to use R and GIS data
> for analyzing archaeological data. On the web I found several links, and it
> seems that a good combination could be  the use of R with GRASS. However,
> I'm a little bit confused due to the big amount of possible links, guides,
> manuals. Do you have any suggestion (online material or books) for a not
> experienced R user and completely ignorant in GIS?
> Thanks for any feedback
> marco
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