The Best Spatial Analysis Packages to Use in R

Spatial Data Analysis is Becoming More Important. Have the Best Tools.

Nick Sokol, PhD
Towards Data Science
4 min readJun 7, 2021

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As data becomes more geographical, there is a growing necessity to make spatial data more accessible and easy to process. While there are plenty of tools out there that can make your life much easier when processing spatial data (e.g. QGIS and ArcMap) using R to conduct spatial analysis can be just as easy. This is especially true if you’re new to some of these packages and don’t feel like reading through all of the documentation to…

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