Spatial Points

A few nights ago while scrolling twitter I discovered an R package called ‘esquisse’. This package was designed to help users explore and extract data quickly and a brilliant feature of this package is the ‘ggplot2 builder’ add-in.

This add-in opens a GUI interface within RStudio that allows you to interactively explore and visualise your data using the ggplot2 package. Provide it with a data frame and you can effortlessly create bar graphs, scatter plots, histograms, boxplots and much more.

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Hey Spatial Information Group folks!  I know many of us are learning how to code and generate spatial raster statistics in R Studio.  It is a steep learning curve, but alot of fun once you get through the basics.  I have always found that I learn best by working through an example tutorial before applying it to real world data, so in that spirit, here’s my “hot tip” for learning R:

Check out the free tutorial and lessons provided by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).  The NEON lessons look very well written and presented…and I’m sure most in our group can relate to the example datasets provided.

https://www.neonscience.org/resources/series/introduction-working-raster-data-r