R Spatial Workshop for 2017 GIS In Action

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...

R - Fundamentals of Spatial Data

In this workshop we will focus on some basics of using the R language, reading and writing spatial data in R, dealing with map...

First we need to install several R libraries. R operates on user-contributed libraries, and we’ll be jumping into use of several of these spatial libraries in this workshop. Several libraries...

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...

The sf Simple Features for R package by Edzer Pebesma is a new, very nice package that represents a changes of gears from the sp S4 or new...

While there is an sp SpatialGridDataFrame object to work with rasters in R, the prefered method far and away is to use the newer raster package by...