Robert Hijmans on Spatial Data Analysis
Last week at the Davis R Users’
Group Robert Hijmans
gave a talk about spatial data analysis in R. Robert is a professor of
biogeography
at UC Davis and the author of the
raster (analysis of
gridded data), dismo
(species distribution modeling), and
geosphere
(spherical trigonometry), packages.
Robert’s presentation spanned topics including basic geographical data
and geostatistics concepts, his raster package and its usage, and some
great examples of visualization and other resources. Here are his
slides:
Robert has also written an introduction to spatial modeling for R
beginners
which reviews very basic data handling and the sp and raster
packages. Finally, his package vignettes are great resources for specific
topics: