Spatial Analysis Using Big Data

Chapter Seven

Implementation with R language

Takahiro Yoshida ¹ , and Daisuke Murakami ^{2       1} Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan      ² The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

This chapter introduces implementations with R for analyzing spatial data. After the brief introduction in Section 7.1, Section 7.2 explains housing price data in Lucas county (Ohio, USA), which we use as an example. Section 7.3 explains handling and plotting of spatial data in R by using a fairly new package, “sf.” Sections 7.4–7.7 explain some of useful R functions for analyzing spatial big data, which we introduced in Chapters 3–6. This may be ...