Spatial Data in R: New Directions

The R-markdown source of the tutorial is found here.

Required packages:

install.packages(c("sf", "tidyverse", "devtools"))
devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2")

A short history of handling spatial data in R

• pre-2003: several people doing spatial statistics or map manipulation with S-Plus, and later R (e.g. spatial in MASS; spatstat, maptools, geoR, splancs, gstat, …)
• 2003: workshop at DSC, concensus that a package with base classes should be useful; this ended up being a multiplicator
• 2003: start of r-sig-geo
• 2003: rgdal released on CRAN
• 2005: sp released on CRAN; sp support in rgdal
• 2008: Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
• 2011: rgeos released on CRAN
• 2013: second edition of Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
• 2016-7: simple features for R, R consortium support (considered pretty much “finished”)
• 2017-8: spatiotemporal tidy arrays for R, R consortium support (design phase)