R Spatial Workshop for 2018 AWRA GIS Conference
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Before The Workshop
Prior to the start of the workshop everyone will need to have the software installed and tested. You will need to have R and RStudio. Get the latest versions of...
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Workshop Schedule
R and Spatial Data
This workshop provides an introduction to working with spatial data in R and doing exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA). Examples of ESDA methods include lagged scatter...
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Installing necessary R packages
First we need to install several R packages. Note the use of the terms
package
andlibrary
in R - you encounter both, and if you want to... -
Lesson 1 - Spatial Data in R - sp
So, to begin, what is R and why should we use R for spatial analysis? Let’s break that into two questions - first, what is R and why should we...
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Lesson 2 - Spatial Data in R - sf
The
sf
Simple Features for R package by Edzer Pebesma is a move from thesp
S4 or new style class representation of spatial data in R, and... -
Lesson 3 - Spatial Data in R - Raster
While there is an
sp
SpatialGridDataFrame
object to work with rasters in R, the prefered method far and away is to use theraster
package by Robert... -
Lesson 4 - Spatial Data in R - Interactive Mapping
There are a number of packages available now in R for mapping and in particular interactive mapping and visualization of spatial data - we’ll take a quick look at a...
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Lesson 5 - Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
ESDA focuses on visualizing and summarizing both the statistical and spatial distributions of data, with an emphasis on assessing if sites near each other have similar values of an attribute...
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Lesson 6 - R ArcGIS Bridge Overview and Demo
If don’t already have ArcGIS, you can get a free 21 day trial here.
Instructional videos on installing the R-ArcGIS bridge.
Using R and ArcGIS together: The most...