Geocomputation with R

The authors are well-established geospatial researchers and teachers. Dr. Robin Lovelace is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, is the developer of high impact applications for more data-driven transport planning and policy. Dr. Jakub Nowosad is an Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, where his focus is on methods for analyzing and understanding spatial patterns in the environment. Dr. Jannes Muenchow is a researcher, engineer and developer at the data science consultancy Cynkra, where he holds a dual role as a senior data scientist and supporting DevOps engineer.

• Foreword (2nd Edition) Preface 1. Introduction 2. Geographic data in R 3. Attribute data operations 4. Spatial data operations 5. Geometry operations 6. Raster-vector interactions 7. Reprojecting geographic data 8. Geographic data I/O Part 1: Foundations 9. Making maps with R 10. Bridges to GIS software 11. Scripts, algorithms and functions 12. Statistical learning Part 2: Extensions 13. Transportation 14. Geomarketing 15. Ecology 16. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Praise for the first edition"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