R? hmm..<br><br>Talk was interesting, http://www.colinmckay.net if you need any info.<br><br>Went a little over my head in places, an interesting talk never the less.<br><br>I wonder how long your open source db's will take to integrate these<br>extensions.<br><br>Does geospatial awareness belong in a database? <br><br>do you make a database really clever? and app's stupid<br><br>or do you make app's clever, and database stupid?<br><br>Out of all the microsoft product range, I must say I like sql server<br>the best, one of the few databases that has had a complete rewrite!!!! <br><br>Open source it today!!!<br><br>Laters,<br>Lee<br><br><br><br><b><i>jamie <linux@riach.eu></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I've been playing with the R language and spatial statistics on linux<br> for a few years. This language also has a windows port, although<br> I am not sure if
all the SP extensions are available. As usual<br> the<br> proprietary nature of ARCview or Mapinfo formats need plugins<br> that<br> escape the protection of American corporate lawyers, so<br> if .NET/Mono<br> makes it easier to access the info that has to be a plus. I had<br> noticed that MS excel (and hence probably access) can use native<br> GIS formats but is a B**g*r to make decent graphics in, or tie<br> in other data.R can do topographic, 3d or spacial bar graphs<br> with relative ease and is recommended with S-stat as the only<br> two statistical packages to be correct with large weighted<br> social data sets by the National Statistics<br> Chief Statistician.<br> <br> <br> <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk
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