[STATSGRASS] making R and grass(6.1) play well together.

[Edzer J. Pebesma]

Tom, there has been quite a bit of development in this area;
first we have made an R package (sp) which has classes and
methods for dealing with spatial points, lines, polygons and grid
objects in R, and then Roger rewrote the grass R package to
work with these data. You can read about it in the latest
grass news, and you can see (more) examples on
http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/ , follow the link "sp and other
packages" which has examples on spgrass6.

Best regards,
--
Edzer

Tom Colson wrote:

>I managed to get R compiled and all the packages talking to grass as it
>should, and all the "demos" seem to work. There is a neat tutorial on
>working with DEM (grass raster) in R
>http://grass.itc.it/statsgrass/learning_r2.html#Working_with_elevation
>
>Tutorial works great with the sample data provided...yet I can't figure
>out how to get "current" raster dems in my mapset/location into a format
>that is acceptable to R...re: the tutorial syntax. Been looking through
>all the man pages, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on
>raster import that would allow one to go through that tutorial using
>one's own data....
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