Re: [R-sig-Geo] rPython installation problem

2014-02-28 Thread Javier Martínez López
I will try it! Thanks! Cheers, Javier Quoting Jonathan Greenberg j...@illinois.edu: Javier: I guess my first suggestion is to try out my rasterEngine function in the spatial.tools package -- it is designed to perform parallel processing of raster images entirely within R. I have a tutorial

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rPython installation problem

2014-02-27 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Javier: If you don't mind me asking -- when you said I need to combine R and Python to process large raster files is there a particular function in python you need to apply to the rasters, or are you specifically referring to some benefit in python of working with arbitrarily large raster files?

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rPython installation problem

2014-02-27 Thread Javier Martínez López
Dear Jonathan, That is a nice question! I need to repetitively apply the Mahalanobis distance to a stack of eleven raster maps comprising very large areas in order to compare the similarity of different areas (see the eHabitat R library [1] which is used for the DOPA explorer [2]). I am

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rPython installation problem

2014-02-27 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Javier: I guess my first suggestion is to try out my rasterEngine function in the spatial.tools package -- it is designed to perform parallel processing of raster images entirely within R. I have a tutorial here: http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/software-and-datasets/rasterengine-tutorial/