Tag Archives: bash

Start R inside GRASS but keep the terminal prompt

Posted on June 17, 2011 by

I often run R from within GRASS GIS. For example using R as a scripting language to automate GIS analysis. Or to use statistical models in R on spatial data in GRASS. I used to open R in the terminal. … Continue reading →

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Getting action into your layer

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

QGIS provides the option to perform an action based on the attributes of a feature. This is useful if you want to run an external application or view a web page based on one or more values in your vector … Continue reading →

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Accessing your file system from within R

Posted on March 6, 2010 by

R includes some powerful yet easy to use functions that provide a direct interface to the computer’s file system. In the example below I use two of these functions (file.info and file.copy) to copy a random selection of the songs on … Continue reading →

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