I totally agree with Stephen. If you need more and more raster processing, it is time to think on GRASS (i do this) and also give a look at SAGA. Two packages to connect GRASS and SAGA to R is spgrass6 and RSAGA, respectively.
Enjoy. milton On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:15 PM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have a look at the spatial task view. I use GRASS GIS for raster > processing, and maybe this would be helpful-http://grass.osgeo.org/. > hth, > > Stephen Sefick > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Jason Robinson<litobran...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > I need to do some raster algebra on some large rasters. right now they > are ascii files. I'm a complete R novice. Can anyone point me towards a > good source for figuring out how to get my data into R and how to do very > simple raster manipulations? no advice is too simple for this guy. > appreciate any help that is out there > > > > Jason Robinson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-Geo mailing list > > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > > > > -- > Stephen Sefick > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo