Hello! Some readers of the list may be interested in a series of tutorials I have developed for an graduate student audience. These are introductory in nature, and assume no prior knowledge of R. They are intended to build skill at using R, particularly the raster package, for applications in landscape ecology. The three tutorials as well as supporting landscape and ecological data are posted in PDF at http://nricaribou.cc.umanitoba.ca/R/ An abbreviated table of contents: Workshop 1: Getting R to work for you Workshop 2: Spatial analysis - Introduction GIS data formats Building a landscape raster Calculating landscape metrics Workshop 3: Spatial analysis - Applications Exploring a real landscape Using point locations to produce landscape variables Extraction using buffered points Minimum distance from a point to a class Best, Paul
Paul Galpern, PhD Candidate Natural Resources Institute 70 Dysart Road University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2M6 http://borealscape.ca