Dear all,
thanks for all your comments and useful suggestions.
marco

2012/11/8 Julian Burgos <julian@hafro.is>

> 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<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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