Re: [R-sig-Geo] classInterval(style="fisher") vs. ArcView GIS natural breaks

2007-03-16 Thread White . Denis
Just found out a little about this in ArcGIS (ArcMap), version 9.1. Yes, apparently with large datasets, the "natural breaks" classification (and maybe others like quantile) does sample. However, it is possible to change the sample size by clicking the "Sampling" button in the Classification windo

Re: [R-sig-Geo] classInterval(style="fisher") vs. ArcView GIS natural breaks

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Hervé Polesi wrote: > Hi! > > Working on a litle datebase (903 lines) I notice a difference between > the result of classInterval(style="fisher") and the natural breaks > proposed by ArcView GIS (3.2). > I read that ArcView works on a sample of data. Is it right ? May it >

[R-sig-Geo] classInterval(style="fisher") vs. ArcView GIS natural breaks

2007-03-16 Thread Hervé Polesi
Hi! Working on a litle datebase (903 lines) I notice a difference between the result of classInterval(style="fisher") and the natural breaks proposed by ArcView GIS (3.2). I read that ArcView works on a sample of data. Is it right ? May it cause a significative difference ? Greetings from Stra