Hi Aside from the books and link suggestions, the safest way to start dealing with open source GIS is to run everything is a VMWare virtual machine.
In this site you can download a virtual machine image with Ubuntu as OS and with all the OpenSource software installed and running (GRASS/Qgis/R/FWTools etc) http://www.gisvm.com/ Best Jorge Alexandre VILLERS wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > I started using R because I appreciated all its possibilities and the > general idea of Public software. Since I'm also getting involved in > spatial analysis, I would like to start using GRASS (with R) for the > same reason (fleixibility, updates, etc.). > I've been using ArcGis for a while now and so have some knowledge on > GIS software but no one in my lab is using GRASS and so I have to > start form the beginning. I downloaded some tutorials but for the > moment it remains quite dark to me, especially with the GRASS 6.3.0 > version, for which documentation appears to be scarce. > > Could someone advise me with a tutorial which would help me with > handling GRASS (something like "GRASS for the beginners") and > connecting GRASS to R (using spgrass6). > > Best regards > > Alex > -- Ph.D. Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre Directorate (DG JRC) Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) TP 441, Via Fermi 1 21020 Ispra (VA) Italy Phone: +39 0332 78 3536 Fax: +39 0332 78 5466 http://rem.jrc.cec.eu.int "The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission" _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
