Good choice to migrate to migrate to opensource software!

I think you can be interrested by GRASS for various reason:
- good integration with R (in the 2 way: call R funtion from GRAS, or run
GRASS function from R) with the spgrass6 package
- GRASS has a great tool for landsape ecology: the r.li suite (
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.li.html)
- also a lot of function for image analysis and database connection (sqlite,
postgres, ...)
- good integration with QGis (nice interface)

Sylvain



2010/9/17 Manuel Spínola <mspinola10@gmail.com>

>  Dear list members,
>
> I am an ecologist interested in spatial and landscape ecology and a user of
> ArcView 3.3 with little experience in ArcGis but I would like to migrate to
> an open source GIS with an interface with R.
> I know that there are several options: QGIS, SAGA, GRASS, Illwis.
>
> What will be the best option of these or other alternatives?
>
> Best,
>
> Manuel
>
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