[Live-demo] Re: Fwd: R on a LiveDVD

[Alex Mandel]

#Load a library
library(sp)
#list the demos available
demo()
#Run the demo from the sp package
#This will step you through several examples of code and the resulting plots
demo(gallery)

We actually did a class on Spatial R this quarter at my school. I'll see
if I can pool some of that together for this, otherwise there should be
more demos for some of the other spatial packages we included.

Thanks,
Alex

Brian Hamlin wrote:
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>> From: Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com>
>> Date: March 11, 2010 9:35:27 AM PST
>> Subject: R on a LiveDVD
>>
>> Hi All-
>>
>>   good to see you (briefly) yesterday.. best to all at the GIF ..
>>
>> Is there someone in your group that would be willing to write 10
>> sentances or less, on how to demonstrate geospatial R ?
>> We have a good link to an example page, and a set of packages that are
>> installed and ready.
>> ------
>> Our California Chapter of the Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo), in
>> collaboration with LisaSoft of Australia and a cast of thousands, is
>> in the last stages of building a 2010 revision of the OSGeo LiveDVD.
>> Its a DVD that boots a pre-configured linux, with more than 35 of the
>> best and most useful open-source geospatial applications installed,
>> configured and ready to rock. Since its a reference release, and
>> royalty-free, it makes for an ideal teaching and demonstration platform.
>>
>> We have created a single wiki page here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing
>>
>> Anyone can download the RC4 build of the Live-DVD here:
>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-rc4/
>>
>>
>> The task at hand is - write the entry on the wiki page, for R.
>> please forward as appropriate - thanks!
>>  -Brian
>>
>> ==
>> Brian Hamlin
>> planetwork.net
>> OSGeo California Chapter
>> (415) 717-4462 cell
>>
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