Monthly Archives: June 2012

Cross tables in R, some ways to do it faster

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

In R to create a contingency table of the counts of the combination of two variables, I would normally resort to table(). But how fast is it? A question that becomes more relevant when working on large tables and when … Continue reading →

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QGIS 1.8 “Lisboa” is out

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

The next version of QGIS has been released and ready for your enjoyment. See this link for more information about this release.

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From attribute table to QGIS style file – step 1

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

I have a large number of GRASS vector layers with in the attribute table a RGB column defining the colours of the corresponding mapping units. Unfortunately, unlike GRASS, QGIS does not offer the option to to set colours from an … Continue reading →

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