Do not learn a new software unless you must. I would find a copy of
"Geocomputation with R" and skim through it to see if it has figures or
chapter/section titles that would suggest that it can do all of the tasks I
need. If the answer looks even close to "yes" then I would go that route
because the software is more familiar. However now that you have spent time
with QGIS, it is all about your guess as to the shortest distance to your goal.
Tim
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A bit of a philosophical question maybe? I am no expert in R but I feel at
home in it. On the other hand I have been wrestling with QGIS, buying books on
it, finding online guides etc and I'm still finding it really tricky. For my
research I need to analyse both topological data (locations of streamflow
gauges for example) and vector data such as precipitation or temperature.
There seems to be a fair amount of geospatial stuff in R, as well as books like
Robin Lovelace's, so I am wondering whether I can throw aside the QGIS stuff
and do everything in R with the needed packages etc.
It would give me a lot more time, if nothing else.
I'd appreciate any thoughts about this
Thanks Nick Wray
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