15.3 Gaps and overlaps 15.3 Gaps and overlaps There are a number of gaps in, and some overlaps between, the topics covered in this book.We have been selective, emphasizing some...

12.2 A case study of Bristol 12.2 A case study of Bristol The case study used for this chapter is located in Bristol, a city in the west of England, around 30 km east of the We...

9.5 When to use what? 9.5 When to use what? To recommend a single R-GIS interface is hard since the usage depends on personal preferences, the tasks at hand and your familiarit...

10.2 Scripts 10.2 Scripts If functions distributed in packages are the building blocks of R code, scripts are the glue that holds them together, in a logical order, to create r...

9.3 (R)SAGA 9.3 (R)SAGA The System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA; Table 9.1 ) provides the possibility to execute SAGA modules via the command line interface (saga...

12.10 Exercises References 12.10 Exercises What is the total distance of cycleways that would be constructed if all the routes presented in Figure 12.6 were to be constructe...

9.1 Introduction 9.1 Introduction A defining feature of R is the way you interact with it:you type commands and hit Enter (or Ctrl+Enter if writing code in the source editor ...

8.7 Exercises References 8.7 Exercises These exercises rely on a new object, africa .Create it using the world and worldbank_df datasets from the spData package as follows ...

1.5 The history of R-spatial 1.5 The history of R-spatial There are many benefits of using recent spatial packages such as sf , but it also important to be aware of the history...