[GRASS-user] GRASS and R question

[Jonathan Greenberg]

I was wondering if I could get some brief feedback on exactly what are the
capabilities of the sp and spgrass6 -- say I'd like to use R to calculate
and NDVI image (I know mapcalc can do this fine, but I'm thinking of some
more complicated analyses that aren't easily performed in R and I figured if
I can figure out NDVI I can figure out the rest of them) -- Does sp,
spgrass6 and R itself provide both the data ingestion capabilities as well
as the necessary subsetting capabilities if my file is very large (e.g. Can
R do a per-pixel or per-line read/process/write routine, or will it attempt
to load an entire raster into memory)?

If R can deal with import of a multiband image and tiled processing, can
someone here perhaps post an example of how to accomplish the above task
(taking a 4 band large file, calculating NDVI and then writing out the NDVI
to disk) using R?  Thanks!

--j


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