Workshop Thursday June 13th (2-4pm) AEST: Intro to {terra} in R with Jason Flower
What: Intro to {terra} - working with raster data in R
Who: Jason Flower, Project Researcher at the Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara
When: June 13th, 2-4pm
Where: Hybrid on Teams (link to join here) and in person at QUT Gardens Point R301
Description: Rasters are commonly used to represent spatial data such as elevation and temperature. This workshop will give a gentle introduction to using the R package {terra} to manipulate and plot raster data. No prior knowledge of spatial data is needed, but basic familiarity with R is assumed. For those migrating from {terra}’s predecessor package {raster}, I will describe some of the changes to functions.
Prerequisites
You will need the terra package installed, which can be done by running install.packages("terra"). If you have problems, there are more details about installing it here. I will also show how to make an interactive map with terra, which requires the leaflet package to be installed; install.packages("leaflet").
You will also need to have the data within this repository. You can do one of the following depending on how comfortable you are with Github:
- Fork this repository. This will create your own copy of this repository which has all the data and code. More details on how to fork here
- Download the data to somewhere on your computer that you will be able to access during the workshop. The data are in a zip file here. Once you have downloaded the data, unzip it, and make sure you know the path to the folder with all the data, e.g. “Documents/workshop_data/”, so you can load the data during the workshop.
The workshop website link is on the right hand side of this page and can also be accessed here
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