{"id":78581,"date":"2017-07-20T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/we-think-therefore-we-r\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T00:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T07:52:50","slug":"we-think-therefore-we-r","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/analytics\/we-think-therefore-we-r","title":{"rendered":"We Think, Therefore We R"},"author":6821,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,22851,28211,22841,22941,22771,22871],"tags":[27181,23551,22901,28601,23391,25581],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-78581","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-national-government","category-health","category-local-government","category-mapping","category-natural-resources","category-state-government","tag-health","tag-location-analytics","tag-national-government","tag-sciences","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-spatial-statistics","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"At this year's UC, the R-ArcGIS bridge continued to revolutionize the way we think about our workflows by showcasing its ability to incor...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>At this year&#8217;s UC, the R-ArcGIS bridge continued to revolutionize the way we think about our workflows by showcasing its ability to incorporate novel analytical methods and to streamline the process of integrating R functionality into ArcGIS.<\/p>\n<p>The power of the bridge goes beyond being able to easily transfer data between ArcGIS and R and vice versa. The bridge allows us to wrap R functionality directly into ArcGIS geoprocessing script tools which enables concise analysis processes and the ability to share R functionality with anyone in your organization. Additionally, the bridge eases certain tasks when working with GIS data in R. The R-ArcGIS bridge offers R users the ability to work with all types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/spatial-analytics-data-science\/overview\">spatial data<\/a>, everything from shapefiles, geodatabases, tables, feature services, and more, along with a simplified process for reprojecting data and even the ability to generate data from specific statistical distributions and directly write it into ArcGIS.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of the demos given at the UC that shows off some of this functionality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/videos\/4033-extend-possibilities-with-the-r-arcgis-bridge\">Extend Possibilities With The R-ArcGIS Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support for learning about additional functions included in the R-ArcGIS bridge&#8217;s R package,\u00a0<strong>arcgisbinding<\/strong>, can be found in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r-arcgis.github.io\/assets\/arcgisbinding-vignette.html\">package&#8217;s vignette<\/a>. 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