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Title:On the use of R programming language in the analyses of spatial data
Authors:ID Kobal, Milan (Author)
ID Ceglar, Andrej (Author)
ID Eler, Klemen (Author)
ID Medved Cvikl, Barbara (Author)
ID Honzak, Luka (Author)
ID Simončič, Primož (Author)
ID Hladnik, David (Author)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dirros/3ecc3358-bac1-4de1-bcb2-67befa671d4e
 
Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:Logo SciVie - Slovenian Forestry Institute
Abstract:R is a powerful and increasingly popular programming language with strong graphical and presentation features and large expanŽdability. Although primarily intended for statistical computing, R has paved its way to the field of GIS through the development of specialized extension packages. It offers a wide range of functions at all GIS levels: data acquisition, data manipulation, graphical reŽpresentation and quantitative analysis. The paper presents R as an open source alternative to the existing commercial GIS software. It proves especially well when advanced quantitative methods on spatial data are needed (e.g. spatial modelling). We demonstrate R capabilities through spatial analysis of forest area in Snežnik (South Slovenia), where the possibilities of data import, conversion and export into various GIS formats and possibilities of geostatistics, spatial modelling and spatial visualization are demonstrated.
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year of publishing:2013
Number of pages:str. 55-62
Numbering:Vol. 102
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-7774 New window
UDC:630*58+630*91(045)=111
ISSN on article:2335-3112
URN:URN:NBN:SI:DOC-8S7MZ5YF
DOI:10.20315/ASetL.102.5 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:3784102 New window
Publication date in DiRROS:12.07.2017
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Title:Acta Silvae et Ligni
Publisher:Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije, založba Silva Slovenica, Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za gozdarstvo in obnovljive gozdne vire, Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za lesarstvo
ISSN:2335-3112
COBISS.SI-ID:266761216 New window

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Language:English
Title:Uporaba programskega okolja R v prostorskih analizah
Abstract:R je zmogljiv in vse bolj priljubljen programski jezik s poudarjenimi grafičnimi in predstavitvenimi funkcijami ter veliko možnostjo razširitve. Čeprav primarno namenjen statističnemu računanju, si je R z razvojem specialnih razširitvenih knjižnic utrl pot tudi na področje GIS. Omogoča široknabor funkcij na vseh ravneh GIS: na nivoju zajemanja podatkov, na nivoju manipulacije podatkov ter na nivoju grafičnih predstavitev in kvantitativnih analiz. V prispevku predstavljamo R kot odprtokodno alternativoobstoječim komercialnim GIS- orodjem, ki se izkaže še posebno tedaj, kadar želimo na prostorskih podatkih upoŽrabiti zahtevnejše kvantitativne metode (npr. prostorska modeliranja). Prikazujemo ga na primeru prostorskih analiz gozdŽnega območja na Snežniku (južna Slovenija), kjer demonstriramo možnosti vnosa podatkov, transformiranja in shranjevanja različnih GIS-podlag, možnosti geostatistike, prostorskega modeliranja in prostorske vizualizacije.
Keywords:R program, prostorsko-časovne analize, ekologija, geomorfologija, Snežnik, Slovenija


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