Paul, Not to mention the huge cost of ESRI products and the fact that they run only on the MS-Windows platform. R also integrates well with GRASS GIS. Personally, I can not see any compelling reasons to go the ESRI route vs R/GRASS…
I feel a great debt of gratitude to the selfless developers of R & GRASS! Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008 7:54 am Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Impact of ArcGIS 8.3 beta's new spatial statistical functions in its Spatial Analyst Extension > Dear Hisaji, > > I think that the choice of people for R is not only based on the > fact > that a certain method is only available in R. R is much more > flexible in > working with data, allows scripting, allows you to see exactly how > a > method works, allows you to extend or develop methods and if you > write > in script files it also provides a record of what you have done. > Apart > from spatial analysis, R also provides a very wide range of > "normal" > statistical methods that are not available in ArcGIS (linear > regression > and such). > > So I don't think a lot of people will forsake R once a few more > methods > become available in ArcGIS. > > regards, > Paul > > Hisaji ONO wrote: > > Hi. > > > > What do you think about ArcGIS 8.3's new statistical > > functions(Calculation of spatial or network, GWR, > > Global/Local Moran, Gi etc.) in its Spatial Analyst > > Extension described in > > > http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/pdf/Whats_New_In_ArcGIS_93.pdf?> > > Current R's spdep's and spgwr's and others' end users > > will loose interests of them and go to use ESRI's apart > > from R's? > > > > And will decrease activities of developments of > > (geo)spatial data analysis tools in R? > > > > > > > > Regards. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-Geo mailing list > > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > > > -- > Drs. Paul Hiemstra > Department of Physical Geography > Faculty of Geosciences > University of Utrecht > Heidelberglaan 2 > P.O. Box 80.115 > 3508 TC Utrecht > Phone: +31302535773 > Fax: +31302531145 > http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
