R help - May 1999 - R and ArcView

Does anyone know if an R plug-in exists for the GIS package 
ArcView running under Windows98 or NT? I know such a plug-in is 
available for S-PLUS.

Thanks

Karen Kotschy
Centre for Water in the Environment
Department of Botany
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel : +2911 716-2218

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Karen:

You asked:
> Does anyone know if an R plug-in exists for the GIS package 
> ArcView running under Windows98 or NT? I know such a plug-in is 
> available for S-PLUS.
> 
The short answer is no. Part of the reason is that R and S-PLUS differ in
the way they manage objects in memory. It is possible to link GIS and R,
though - I've been able to move data back and forth between GRASS and R
without major difficulties (under Unix). What kind of link are you
thinking of, and for what kind of data - raster, point or polygon?

-- 
Roger Bivand
Department of Geography,
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration,
Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no


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