[R-sig-Geo] a spatial bestiary?

[Michael Sumner]

I love the "idea", but it really is beast-ridden, so good luck to
anyone proceeding forth from here. :)

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Both links are great, but not actually addressing the point that Lee
> is raising. Perhaps
> not only a guide is needed and an effort to review, harmonize and even
> re-organize
> different spatial objects might be needed.
> But an structured guide presenting current spatial object classes
> would be great help and
> could actually highlight eventual needs for re-organization. Let's try
> to find time for this
> among all users.
> Agus
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Etienne B. Racine <etiennebr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lee, I share your confusion. Maybe something like a cheatsheet could help ?
>> It's not highly structured, but it present information in a different way.
>> These are two I'm aware of (I've made the last one).
>>
>> http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Teaching/UseR2012/cheatsheet.html
>> or
>> http://www.rpubs.com/etiennebr/visualraster
>>
>> Etienne
>>
>>
>> 2013/12/13 <ldecola at comcast.net>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I’ve been teaching and using R (and S-PLUS) for a couple of decades, and
>>> using its spatial libraries for about half of that, but i still get
>>> confused by the various ‘geographically-aware’ data objects that are
>>> supported. Although Bivand’s Spatial.html page is quite helpful, I wonder
>>> is there a ‘bestiary’ that outlines (perhaps in some kind of tree format?)
>>> what they are, what geometries are represented, which libraries create or
>>> support them, etc.?
>>>
>>> Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP.
>>> DATA to Insight
>>> LDECOLA at COMCAST.NET
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