Affiliation:
1. BEAGx, Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Abstract
The present article is intended to serve an educational purpose for data scientists and students who already have experience with the R language and which to start using it for geospatial analysis and map creation. The basic concepts of raster data, vector data, CRS and datum are first presented along with a basic workflow to conduct reproducible geospatial research in R. Examples of important types of maps (scatter, bubble, choropleth, hexbin and faceted) created from open-source environmental data are illustrated and their practical implementation in R is discussed. Through these examples, essential manipulations on geospatial vector data are demonstrated (reading, transforming CRS, creating geometries from scratch, buffer zones around existing geometries and intersections between geometries).
Funder
BEAGx—Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech—University of Liège
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