> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of arbeaupg > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:36 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] New to R, Curious about Project Idea > > Good morning, > > I am a student whom is currently working on a term project for my GIS > Program. I am looking for a software package which can aid me in my > project, > and I was curious if R would be able to address my goals. > > My project includes power outage data from a hydro company (point data, > with UTM coordinates attached), which is available in an Access database, > or > in a Shapefile. > > I would like to be able to take this poweroutage data, and then perform a > spatial analysis of this data, perhaps as a hot-spot analysis, or in a > points per raster square style analysis. > > With the completed analysis, I would like to be able to use an open source > web mapping platform to display it for the 'company' I am performing this > for as part of my project. > > > Any insight you could provide me would be greatly, greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Phil >
Not my area of expertise, but if you go to your favorite CRAN mirror and look at the task views, you will find info on spatial analysis. Also, Googling 'R GIS' brings up a "ton" of hits. Good luck, Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
