I fought with R and R won!

Back in the 1980's I learned command line SAS and sort of stumbled along in that world with occasional diversions into SPSS. But nobody would ever confuse me with a real statistician. I knew enough to understand what statisticians told me about my data. Most of the time without embarrassing my self too badly.

I started with GRASS in Unix about the same time. It had lots of poorly integrated tools back then. So I moved to ESRI and Erdas (when I found an employer with pockets deep enough to buy comprehensive licenses). Most of what I did in image processing, classification, rectification and GIS analysis was in one or both of those packages.

Now that I'm paying my own way on my own dinky computer I'm looking at QGIS, which my friend tells me is capable of much of what I want to do. We'll see.

That website has an awful lot more than just GIS packages. I could get lost in there.