[Freegis-list] Re: GIS grant to help map cities worldwide

[Paul Ramsey]

Michael, et al:
   There is an experimental binding for R (the free software version of
SPlus) as a server-side language in PostgreSQL. As a (lapsed)
statistician, I am quite excited about this. As a proponent of PostGIS,
I am even more excited: there is a spatial statistics package for R 
called geoR. With a little typecasting work (from a resultset to a geoR 
spatial data frame and vice versa) it could be possible to do spatial 
statistics directly within PostgreSQL. OLAP with a huge twist! :)
P.

Michael C Dietze wrote:

> As for the use of traditional spatial stats like variograms and 
> krieging and the like, I think it's just part of the larger iceberg
> of how ecologists (and probably most researchers in general) misuse
> and abuse their stats, and the need to move beyond inappropriate
> frequentist approaches.  You might want to take a look at our lab's
> paper in the new (Jan '03) issue of Ecology.

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