Description
Book SynopsisPresents a vision for an introductory and accessible textbook on geographic data analysis, modelling, and visualisation with R. The discipline of Geography captures each of these things, as well as content to get R beginners up-to-speed with R in general.
Trade Review"Geocomputation with R offers several advantages. Firstly, it uses up-to-date packages, mainly the 'sf' package for vector processing which was not available at the time the previous books were written. 'sf’' is truly a game-changer in the field of working with spatial data in R. I believe this alone makes writing the new book worthwhile. Secondly, the book offers a very broad overview, trying—and in my opinion succeeding—to encompass all non-statistical themes involved in geo-computation, including subjects such as location and transport modeling in R (chapters 7-8) which were never published before. Thirdly, the book offers a lot of illustrations and clearly demonstrates key concepts in GIS and geo-computation from the R point of view. I believe these characteristics will give the book an advantage and quite possibly make it the most popular choice in the category of spatial analysis in R for several years to come…The book can be used both as reference and as a textbook…The present book will definitely become the main textbook for this course once published."
~Michael Dorman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
"This book sets out to explain the key ideas in geocomputation – more specifically manipulating, visualising, modelling and analysing geographical data. A further aim is to achieve all of this using only open source software. Developments of recent years have made this an achievable goal, and this book provides a good starting point for readers wishing to do this… The strength of this book is therefore on the computational aspects (for example producing R-based interactive web sites using shiny) and as a comprehensive overview of the kinds of data one is likely to work with (for example taking care to ensure raster and vector data are both well represented here). The final part showcasing real-world applications is also strong. Another highlight of the book are the exercises at the end of each chapter…Finally, the book comes
Table of ContentsAn introduction to R for spatial data. Loading and saving geographical data. Working with attribute data. Basic map making. Spatial classes. Coordinate systems/reprojecting. Working with vector data. Working with raster data. Raster-vector interaction. Kriging and spatial interpolation. Spatial data modelling. Advanced map making. Examples of applications.
