Materials

Accessing open data with R

Creating feature data with R and QGIS

Data sources

Spatial data is available in a wide range of formats at the local, national, and…

How to use RStudio during this course

In this class, students will use the RStudio IDE to write and excecute R code…

Read and filter spatial data with R

Read tabular data and convert to spatial data with R

Learn to read tabular data with R, convert to spatial data with the sf package, and clean data with the dplyr and tidy packages.

Spatial operations with the sf, tigris, and crashapi packages

This exercise is designed to be used as an interactive activity to better understand how to work with spatial transformation functions from the sf package. A few suggestions:

Tidying data in R

Let’s start by with the question: what is tidy data?

Using QGIS

Read the Desktop User Guide/Manual

Using R and RStudio Desktop

R is a statistical programming language that supports a wide range of data analysis, processing, and visualization activities.

Working with attributes in R (and QGIS)

Working with attributes in R (and QGIS)