R and GIS

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a google of 
cran r archeology

seems to bring up many useful links

(and cran r or cran [r] in any R related
searches helps focus on things R)

HTH Chris

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:17:27 +0100
From: vrukol at gmail.com
To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Subject: [R-sig-Geo] R and GIS

Dear all,
I'm interested in the analysis of spatial data with R and I'm completely
new to the world of GIS. However, I would like to try to use R and GIS data
for analyzing archaeological data. On the web I found several links, and it
seems that a good combination could be the use of R with GRASS. However,
I'm a little bit confused due to the big amount of possible links, guides,
manuals. Do you have any suggestion (online material or books) for a not
experienced R user and completely ignorant in GIS?
Thanks for any feedback
marco

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Here's a book:

The Geospatial Desktop
Open Source GIS & Mapping

by Gary Sherman

isbn 978-0-9868052-1-9

http://www.locatepress.com/
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062

On 11/7/12 11:17 AM, "marco milella" <vrukol at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear all,
>I'm interested in the analysis of spatial data with R and I'm completely
>new to the world of GIS. However, I would like to try to use R and GIS
>data
>for analyzing archaeological data. On the web I found several links, and
>it
>seems that a good combination could be  the use of R with GRASS. However,
>I'm a little bit confused due to the big amount of possible links, guides,
>manuals. Do you have any suggestion (online material or books) for a not
>experienced R user and completely ignorant in GIS?
>Thanks for any feedback
>marco
>
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Hi Marco,
Depending on what you have to do, you may not need a GIS.  R has now 
many "GIS-like" features.  I now use R for 98% of my work, and use GRASS 
and QGIS mostly to process large datasets and as interactive 
visualization tools.  But all analyses and plotting (for publications or 
reports) is done in R.
This is a good start:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-78171-6?MUD=MP
Look the first section of the book, in particular.
Good luck!

Julian
Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD
Hafranns?knastofnunin/Marine Research Institute
Sk?lagata 4, 121 Reykjav?k, Iceland
S?mi/Telephone : +354-5752037
Br?fs?mi/Telefax:  +354-5752001
Netfang/Email: julian at hafro.is

On 11/07/2012 07:17 PM, marco milella wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm interested in the analysis of spatial data with R and I'm completely
> new to the world of GIS. However, I would like to try to use R and GIS data
> for analyzing archaeological data. On the web I found several links, and it
> seems that a good combination could be  the use of R with GRASS. However,
> I'm a little bit confused due to the big amount of possible links, guides,
> manuals. Do you have any suggestion (online material or books) for a not
> experienced R user and completely ignorant in GIS?
> Thanks for any feedback
> marco
>
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