Hello List,
I'm a very new user to the R system. I'm only beginning to learn the basics, but so far I've been able to do little more than try a few examples, and of course begin reading the documentation. My primary motivation for exploring R is the availability of tools like the 'spdep' package for calculating spatial statistics such as Geary's C and Moran's I, which I would like to use in an analysis for my thesis. However, I am not really sure how to get started. As a simple example, if I have a table with columns containing an ID field, X & Y coordinates, and an observation value, what steps should I follow to pre-process this data in order to use the moran() function? I've been able to duplicate the example in the help documentation (e.g., http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/spdep/html/moran.html), but without understanding what the commands really do, I'm unable to proceed much further. How might I figure out the data that gets loaded when I run 'data(oldcol)' for example? Is there anyone that might be able to give me some tips, or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Mike [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
