On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:02:44AM -0700, mayank_agarwal wrote: > > Thanks Christopher, > > I think R is a really good option to use, as GRASS is a desktop GIS.
Er... and? I mean, R is a 'desktop statistics program', right? :) GRASS can be seen as a command line tool for performing analysis operations on a set of geospatial data. It can also be many other things, but calling it a "Desktop GIS" and dismissing it out of hand as a result is not really fair. (You might say something like "Programmatic access to the statistical options with R will be simpler than doing similar operations with GRASS"; that *might* be true, though I'm not actually sure.) In the end, for geospatial analysis, my expectation is that both GRASS and R will behave similarly; both have a psuedo-language that you use to operate on data and generate more data / statistics. Each will have different pros/cons, but "it's a desktop GIS" isn't really either :) Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
