Re: [R-sig-Geo] rgdal

2010-06-18 Thread tom sgouros
use, so they are not libraries with which I am familiar. Where can I find a test program? Thank you, -tom Roger Bivand wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, tom sgouros wrote: > > Your syntax for the configure.args= argument was wrong, and most > likely it would fail on GDAL next. If yo

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rgdal

2010-06-17 Thread tom sgouros
Alex Mandel wrote: > On 06/17/2010 05:40 PM, tom sgouros wrote: > > > > Hello all: > > > > I read this in the rgdal documentation: > > > >> The GDAL and PROJ.4 libraries are external to the package, and, when > >> installing the pac

[R-sig-Geo] rgdal

2010-06-17 Thread tom sgouros
Hello all: I read this in the rgdal documentation: > The GDAL and PROJ.4 libraries are external to the package, and, when > installing the package from source, must be correctly installed first. Does "correctly" mean something different from the default? I installed PROJ.4 on my Mac OS X (10.

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread tom sgouros
Is this another way to say that I've stumbled onto one of the borders between the set of tasks that R does well and the set of tasks I should use a GIS for? Or should I persevere with R on this? Second question: if I want to just do this assembly myself, so to keep some control over placement, i

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread tom sgouros
Roger Bivand wrote: > > Being near the water, there are lots of islands, so each town is > > represented by a bunch of polygons. How do I select only one to be > > labeled, and is there a convention for which one would be the best to > > use? I see the labpt slot, in my SpatialPolygonsDataFram

[R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread tom sgouros
Hello all: Thanks to all your earlier help, I'm now using spplot to generate a map of about 400 polygons representing about 40 different towns. In addition to being able to color the polygons, I would like to label the plots with a number or the town name. Being near the water, there are lots

Re: [R-sig-Geo] newbie questions

2009-11-15 Thread tom sgouros
tom sgouros wrote: > > Dan Putler wrote: > > Er, what exactly is your data? Do you have data that is linked to zip > > codes and you want to do a "thematic" (choropleth) map of the data? Do > > you have point data (say a lat/lon values), and want to plot

Re: [R-sig-Geo] newbie questions

2009-11-15 Thread tom sgouros
for expanding my vocabulary today. Is there a name for the bar graph kind of thing? (Here's an example: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/346428 ) Thank you, -tom > > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:30 -0500, tom sgouros wrote: > > Raphael Saldanha wrote: > &

Re: [R-sig-Geo] newbie questions

2009-11-15 Thread tom sgouros
Raphael Saldanha wrote: > Hi Tom! > > I'm a geographer and R enthusiast too, but what I can say is: R is a great > software to statistics. The final production of maps, although it's > possible, it's simple and faster made with GIS softwares, like GRASS, > Quantum GIS or ArcGIS. This is exactl

Re: [R-sig-Geo] newbie questions

2009-11-15 Thread tom sgouros
Roger Bivand wrote: > > I'm trying to make some simple maps of election results and I am having > > some trouble. I'm hoping to use Grass (or QGis) to make the maps, but > > apparently this requires getting my data into the shape files, and I > > can't figure out how to do that. I've found re

[R-sig-Geo] newbie questions

2009-11-15 Thread Tom Sgouros
Hello all: I'm trying to make some simple maps of election results and I am having some trouble. I'm hoping to use Grass (or QGis) to make the maps, but apparently this requires getting my data into the shape files, and I can't figure out how to do that. I've found read.shape and that's great,

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-07-01 Thread tom sgouros
nswers will be forthcoming from some kind wiki-editor. -tom > > 2008/7/1 tom sgouros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > One thing you could begin with on that wiki is simply a description of > > which class of geographical problems

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-07-01 Thread tom sgouros
One thing you could begin with on that wiki is simply a description of which class of geographical problems R is useful for and which class is better to use a GIS for. -tom -- tomfool at as220 dot org http://sgouros.com http://whatcheer.net

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread tom sgouros
Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't mean to rant, but believe me, I've spent plenty of time with > > the documentation and it's really not helping. > > > > Partly this is a problem of R's doc format which treats package > > documentation as an alphabetical list of functions - whi

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-25 Thread tom sgouros
n. (I'm pretty sure I'll be back seeking all your indulgence sometime then.) For the moment, I expect that the mapping I'll do will be via maptools, since the immediate need is pretty rudimentary. I still know nothing about GRASS and QGIS (but will soon) so don't yet know

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-25 Thread tom sgouros
Hello all: I almost hesitate to write and thank you all for the helpful replies, because good ones keep appearing in my inbox, and who would want to put a stop to that? But my gratitude overcomes my cupiditude, so thank you all very much for the pointers. -Tom -- t

[R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-24 Thread Tom Sgouros
Hello all: I was referred to this list when I asked a question on the r-help list about mapping. Unfortunately, I seem to be a little late to the party, and a couple of weeks of monitoring the traffic have left me no more enlightened than I was before, since it seems that the questions asked are