R / ArcGIS

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Edzer Pebesma wrote:

Hi,

I might succeed meeting with some ESRI / ArcGIS folks at AAG next week;
I'm in touch with them in particular about linking R to ArcGIS.

Please also see this thread:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2012-February/057922.html

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/TemporalExtension

http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/temporal/

the code being Python-based.

I would like to find out if any of you has been successful (or
unsuccessful) in reading or writing ArcGIS geodatabase files directly
from R, by using the rgdal driver, or by some other means.

Another issue is reading/writing spatio-temporal features ?(netcdf does
spatio-temporal grids/arrays pretty well it seems); rumours go that
ArcGIS might, in the near future, support reading/writing SpatiaLite.

With best regards,

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Roger Bivand
Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics,
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