This is an open source book on geographic data in R. Source code: GitHub - geocompx/geocompr: Geocomputation with R: an open source book publicly accessible book: https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/
Innovative features
- Supported by website with 10+ supplementary articles going into more depth on topics covered in the chapters in the book, created with pkgdown: https://geocompr.github.io/
- Inclusion of interactive maps, this map showing where the 3 authors are from: Chapter 1 Introduction | Geocomputation with R
- Inclusion of a minimal shiny app showing how to build mapping applications with R: Chapter 9 Making maps with R | Geocomputation with R
- Animated maps, including this map showing the evolution of US state boundaries and populations: Chapter 9 Making maps with R | Geocomputation with R
- All reproducible and tested thanks to Travis
- We've made dozens of 'upstream' contributions in the process of making this book, as illustrated by https://github.com/Robinlovelace/geocompr/blob/master/our-impact.csv
- And have got community involvement with 30 contributors to the project and counting (many thanks all!): https://github.com/Robinlovelace/geocompr/graphs/contributors
- We encouraged community contribution via a competition to design a front cover image. This resulted in the winning result, using reproducible code found here, illustrated below:
- Huge amount of effort's gone into this in an international collaboration: 5000+ commits over the course of nearly 2 years, providing decent R-geo teaching resources to people around the world for free (although a hardback of the book will be made available for sale by CRC Press): Commits · geocompx/geocompr · GitHub
Thanks for looking at our submission,
Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad and Jannes Muenchow.