[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Staistical analysis support needed
Christopher Schmidt
crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Mon Sep 13 06:08:36 PDT 2010
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 04:02:44AM -0700, mayank_agarwal wrote:
>
> Thanks Christopher,
>
> I think R is a really good option to use, as GRASS is a desktop GIS.
Er... and? I mean, R is a 'desktop statistics program', right? :)
GRASS can be seen as a command line tool for performing analysis
operations on a set of geospatial data. It can also be many other
things, but calling it a "Desktop GIS" and dismissing it out of hand as
a result is not really fair.
(You might say something like "Programmatic access to the statistical
options with R will be simpler than doing similar operations with
GRASS"; that *might* be true, though I'm not actually sure.)
In the end, for geospatial analysis, my expectation is that both GRASS
and R will behave similarly; both have a psuedo-language that you use to
operate on data and generate more data / statistics. Each will have
different pros/cons, but "it's a desktop GIS" isn't really either :)
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
More information about the Discuss
mailing list