This is the repository for D-Lab's Geospatial Fundamentals in R with sf workshop.
This is the repository for D-Lab's R Geospatial Fundamentals workshop.
Geospatial data are an important component of data visualization and analysis in the social sciences, humanities, and elsewhere. The R programming language is a great platform for exploring these data and integrating them into your research. This workshop focuses on fundamental operations for reading, writing, manipulating and mapping vector data, which encodes location as points, lines and polygons.
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sf
package)base::plot
and the ggplot3
package)tmap
package)raster
package)Please follow the notes in participant-instructions.md.
We assume that participants have working familiarity with the R language, including the topics covered in our R-Fundamentals workshop materials (though participants without this have still reported useful learning about geospatial concepts).
If you would like a refresher on R, you could review that workshop's materials, or look to other online resources such as the Base R Cheat Sheet or the Quick R website.
Please bring a laptop with the following:
ggplot2
, sf
, here
, units
, tmap
, mapview
, tidyverse
and raster
installed, minimallytmap
getting started documentation is a great source of plotting support.sf
vignettes and sf
cheatsheet are great resources for developing and debugging sf
code.raster
vignettes should help you troubleshoot that package.