07 - Extra Credit

Try loading in some of the example data in the sp package for the Meuse River. The Meuse River flows through France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the meuse data in sp gives information on heavy metal deposits in the top soil of a floodplain along the Meuse River. Use the meuse data and explore some ideas here:

R and GIS And here introducing the gstat package: Gstat Vignette

Explore the sea ice data in rnoaa package:

rnoaa

Obtain and plot some toy data using Jeff Hollister’s nice elevatr package for accessing elevation data from online sources

elevatr

Try following some of the example code on geoknife ReadMe page but for a different state or geography stencil:

geoknife

Try getting recent earthquake data for region around here using geonames package:

geonames