Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-26 Thread Paulo van Breugel
apping of Environmental > Variables. EUR 22904 > EN Scientific and Technical Research series, Office for Official Publications > of the European > Communities, Luxemburg, 143 pp. > http://eusoils.jrc.it/ESDB_Archive/eusoils_docs/other/EUR22904en.pdf > > > -Original Mes

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-26 Thread Roger Bivand
27;" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:57 AM > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction > > >> >> Dear Paulo, >> >> I completely agree about SAGA. I have been monitoring the evolution of &g

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-26 Thread Stan Hopkins
r. Thanks, Stan - Original Message - From: "Tomislav Hengl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Paulo van Breugel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-26 Thread Tomislav Hengl
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo van Breugel Sent: maandag 26 november 2007 12:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction Hi Tom, In addition to the (very useful) earlier posts, I would like to point

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-26 Thread Paulo van Breugel
Hi Tom, In addition to the (very useful) earlier posts, I would like to point out SAGA GIS. It is a very good GIS software (and freeware / open source), especially for grid analyses. It has a command line version, which together with the ability of R to invoke system commands using either 'Sh

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-25 Thread tom sgouros
Hello all: I've gotten two requests asking me to post a summary of the answers I got to my question. The answers were dense, and will take me a bit to assimilate, but here's my early attempt at a review. People will, I hope, correct where I'm screwing it up. The overall message was not to conf

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

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-25 Thread Rick Reeves
Hi Tom: Good question. The information on GIS/Mapping and R (as well as other open-source software tools) is somewhat decentralized, but there is a great deal of high-quality information available if you know where to look - One place that you might start is the CRAN task view for spatial dat

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-25 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Saturday 24 November 2007 08:31:33 pm tom sgouros wrote: > Thanks very much for the reply. I think a lot of my confusion is in not > knowing where the boundaries fall between the different applications. > Can you tell me roughly the division of labor among the software you > mentioned? Sure. I

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Saturday 24 November 2007 02:04:17 pm Tom Sgouros wrote: > > Hi Tom, sorry to hear that you haven't discovered what you were looking for > yet. Here are some comments / suggestions. > >> Hello all: >> >> I was referred to this list when I asked a qu

Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapping introduction

2007-11-24 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Saturday 24 November 2007 02:04:17 pm Tom Sgouros wrote: Hi Tom, sorry to hear that you haven't discovered what you were looking for yet. Here are some comments / suggestions. > Hello all: > > I was referred to this list when I asked a question on the r-help list > about mapping. Unfortunate

[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