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title: "A Crash Course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using R"
author: "Michael Branion-Calles"
date: "2021-06-01T18:03:32Z"
tags: [Course, Geographic, Tutorial, Textbook, Data Science, Package, Tidyverse]
link: "https://bookdown.org/michael_bcalles/gis-crash-course-in-r/"
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A Crash Course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using R [...] There is an assumption of some previous experience in R with this tutorial. If you have not used R before I would start with Chapter 1 of the free, and excellent textbook R for Data Science. The GIS operations in R from the sf package are designed to integrate well with the tidyverse suite of R packages. We will make use of some basic functionality from the dplyr package and will be using pipes (%>%) to sequence multiple operations. If you are unfamiliar with dplyr and pipes I would go through the base vignette before ...
