This article demonstrates how the realworld
data is imported, managed, visualized,
and analyzed within the R statistical
framework. Presented as a spatial
mashup, this tutorial introduces the user
to R packages, R syntax, and data structures.
The user will learn how the R environment
works with R packages as well
as its own capabilities in statistical analysis.
We will be accessing spatial data in
several formats—html, xml, shapefiles,
and text—locally and over the web to
produce a map of home foreclosure auctions
and perform statistical analysis on
these events.