Paulo Cardoso <pecardoso <at> netcabo.pt> writes:
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> Can we by any change perform in R something similar geoprocessing or, more
> advanced, Spatial SQL over vectorial data?
Please visit the Spatial task view on your nearest CRAN mirror, which gives some
details of useful resources. Consider using the R-sig-geo list to follow up
this question.
You can do SQL selection on some external data sources using OGR mechanisms
in the rgdal package, but I think that you will find that careful design of
your workflow will show what needs to be done using GIS jargon (like
geoprocessing), and what can be conveniently done using R functions,
classes and methods. Try not to look for exact equivalents, but sketch
the workflow to exploit what R is good at.
Roger
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> Paulo
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