There's a task view that should get you started with everything Spatial.

http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/TaskViews/ or
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html

There's also a book on handing Spatial data by Bivand et al
http://www.asdar-book.org/

For importing data, see package rgdal (also mentioned in the task view).

One big package is *sp* that provides the framework to work with spatial
data (described in detail the above book and help files of the package).
Check out the vignettes at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sp/index.html. I'm sure there are a
few tutorials floating around on this subject as well.


Cheers,
Roman


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Nice Guy <guynice111@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am new to GIS and R, and would be extremely grateful for any help with
> the following please:
>
> (1) How do I import ESRI shapefiles into R for use in 'SpatialEpi' package?
>
> (2) In R 'SpatialEpi' package, for calculating 'Empirical Bayes Estimates
> of Relative Risk', 'Computing Expected Numbers of Disease', and 'Computing
> Parameters to Calibrate a Gamma Distribution', I need help. Are there any
> 'cookbook' style notes to carry out one's own analysis.
>
> Thanks!
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