GRASS and R
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
I found Grass a little confusing to start with also, I would suggest you actually start with QGIS which contains a plugin to access grass. It can help you get the feel for how grass works and stores data. There are also several plugins that use R to perform operations, so if you're into programming you could learn from those. Here are some tutorials that might help you http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory Alex