Hi Karl,

I installed QGIS and the optional GRASS 6.4.2 with the GDAL 1.9 framework and GSL, and agree this is much simpler than attempting to use R as a stand alone GIS.  Very easy to load my data, pan, zoom and identify attributes of polygons.

Regarding integrating QGIS and R, is there a package or plugin I need to add.  I noticed some comments on stackexchange regarding manageR, is this the best way to go?  FYI, I am running R 2.14.0 on MacOS Lion.

Thanks,
Ty


On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:

Frazier, Tyler James skreiv:

That works but I can only chose one polygon and have its attributes
identified.  I want to plot my map, then be able to pan and zoom, and
chose several polygons to have their attributes identified (one at a time
would be fine).


I would recommend using QGIS instead of R for these kinds of tasks:

 http://www.qgis.org/

It’s very easy to use, and supports both panning, zooming and clicking
to show polygon attributes (and has a whole lot of other useful features).
You can even integrate QGIS and R.







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