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geojsonio
CRAN

Convert Data from and to GeoJSON or TopoJSON

Michael Mahoney
Description

Convert data to GeoJSON or TopoJSON from various R classes, including vectors, lists, data frames, shape files, and spatial classes. geojsonio does not aim to replace packages like sp, rgdal, rgeos, but rather aims to be a high level client to simplify conversions of data from and to GeoJSON and TopoJSON.

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Scientific use cases
  1. von Schmidt, A., Cyganski, R., & Heinrichs, M. 2019. Web-based Visualization of Daily Mobility Patterns in R. International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, vol 12 (3 & 4). https://elib.dlr.de/133599/1/inttech_v12_n34_2019_2.pdf
  2. Ranghetti, L., Boschetti, M., Nutini, F., & Busetto, L. (2020). “sen2r”: An R toolbox for automatically downloading and preprocessing Sentinel-2 satellite data. Computers & Geosciences, 139, 104473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104473
  3. Shrestha, R. K., & Shrestha, R. (2020). Group segmentation and heterogeneity in the choice of cooking fuels in post-earthquake Nepal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09616. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.09616.pdf

Import OpenStreetMap Data as Simple Features or Spatial Objects

Mark Padgham
Description

Download and import of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data as sf or sp objects. OSM data are extracted from the Overpass web server (https://overpass-api.de/) and processed with very fast C++ routines for return to R.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Hawker, L., Rougier, J., Neal, J., Bates, P., Archer, L., & Yamazaki, D. (2018). Implications of Simulating Global Digital Elevation Models for Flood Inundation Studies. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018wr023279
  2. Briz-Redón, Á. (2019). SpNetPrep: An R package using Shiny to facilitate spatial statistics on road networks. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 5. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.5.e33521
  3. Morelle, K., Jezek, M., Licoppe, A., & Podgorski, T. (2019). Deathbed choice by ASF‐infected wild boar can help find carcasses. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13267
  4. Lara-Lizardi, F., Hoyos-Padilla, M., Hearn, A., Klimley, A. P., Galván-Magaña, F., Arauz, R., … Ketchum, J. T. (2020). Shark movements in the Revillagigedo Archipelago and connectivity with the Eastern Tropical Pacific. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.02.972844
  5. Borgoni, R., Gilardi, A., & Zappa, D. (2020). Assessing the Risk of Car Crashes in Road Networks. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02295-x
  6. Dunnett, S., Sorichetta, A., Taylor, G., & Eigenbrod, F. (2020). Harmonised global datasets of wind and solar farm locations and power. Scientific Data, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0469-8
  7. Baddeley, A., Nair, G., Rakshit, S., McSwiggan, G., & Davies, T. M. (2020). Analysing point patterns on networks — A review. Spatial Statistics, 100435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100435
  8. Cervigni, E., Renton, M., Haslam McKenzie, F., Hickling, S., & Olaru, D. (2020). Describing and mapping diversity and accessibility of the urban food environment with open data and tools. Applied Geography, 125, 102352. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102352
  9. Padgham, M., Lovelace, R., Salmon, M., & Rudis, B. (2017). osmdata. The Journal of Open Source Software, 2(14), 305. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00305
  10. Moradi, M. (2020). Evaluating the quality of OSM roads and buildings in the Québec Province. https://corpus.ulaval.ca/jspui/bitstream/20.500.11794/67232/1/36576.pdf
  11. Wilkins, E.J. 2020. Using Social Media to Assess the Impact of Weather and Climate on Visitation to Outdoor Recreation Settings. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7986
osmextract
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Download and Import Open Street Map Data Extracts

Andrea Gilardi
Description

Match, download, convert and import Open Street Map data extracts obtained from several providers.

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Group Animal Relocation Data by Spatial and Temporal Relationship

Alec L. Robitaille
Description

Detects spatial and temporal groups in GPS relocations (Robitaille et al. (2020) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13215). It can be used to convert GPS relocations to gambit-of-the-group format to build proximity-based social networks In addition, the randomizations function provides data-stream randomization methods suitable for GPS data.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Robitaille, A. L., Webber, Q. M. R., & Vander Wal, E. (2018). Conducting social network analysis with animal telemetry data: applications and methods using spatsoc. https://doi.org/10.1101/447284
  2. Webber, Q. M. R., & Vander Wal, E. (2019). Trends and perspectives on the use of animal social network analysis in behavioural ecology: a bibliometric approach. Animal Behaviour, 149, 77–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.01.010
  3. Peignier, M., Webber, Q. M. R., Koen, E. L., Laforge, M. P., Robitaille, A. L., & Vander Wal, E. (2019). Space use and social association in a gregarious ungulate: Testing the conspecific attraction and resource dispersion hypotheses. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5071
  4. Gilbertson, M. L. J., White, L. A., & Craft, M. E. (2020). Trade‐offs with telemetry‐derived contact networks for infectious disease studies in wildlife. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13355
  5. Robitaille, A. L., Webber, Q. M. R., Turner, J. W., & Wal Eric, V. (2020). The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks. Current Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052
opentripplanner
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Setup and connect to OpenTripPlanner

Malcolm Morgan
Description

Setup and connect to OpenTripPlanner (OTP) http://www.opentripplanner.org/. OTP is an open source platform for multi-modal and multi-agency journey planning written in Java. The package allows you to manage a local version or connect to remote OTP server to find walking, cycling, driving, or transit routes. This package has been peer-reviewed by rOpenSci (v. 0.2.0.0).

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Scientific use cases
  1. Lovelace, R. (2021). Open source tools for geographic analysis in transport planning. Journal of Geographical Systems. doi:10.1007/s10109-020-00342-2
terrainr
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Landscape Visualizations in R and Unity

Michael Mahoney
Description

Functions for the retrieval, manipulation, and visualization of geospatial data, with an aim towards producing 3D landscape visualizations in the Unity 3D rendering engine. Functions are also provided for retrieving elevation data and base map tiles from the USGS National Map https://apps.nationalmap.gov/services/.

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mregions
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Marine Regions Data from Marineregions.org

Salvador Fernandez
Description

Tools to get marine regions data from https://www.marineregions.org/. Includes tools to get region metadata, as well as data in GeoJSON format, as well as Shape files. Use cases include using data downstream to visualize geospatial data by marine region, mapping variation among different regions, and more.

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opencage
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Geocode with the OpenCage API

Daniel Possenriede
Description

Geocode with the OpenCage API, either from place name to longitude and latitude (forward geocoding) or from longitude and latitude to the name and address of a location (reverse geocoding), see https://opencagedata.com.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Cano, J., Rodríguez, A., Simpson, H., Tabah, E. N., Gómez, J. F., & Pullan, R. L. (2018). Modelling the spatial distribution of aquatic insects (Order Hemiptera) potentially involved in the transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Africa. Parasites & Vectors, 11(1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3066-3
  2. Zizka, A., Silvestro, D., Andermann, T., Azevedo, J., Duarte Ritter, C., Edler, D., … Antonelli, A. (2019). CoordinateCleaner: standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13152
  3. Deribe, K., Simpson, H., Pullan, R. L., Bosco, M. J., Wanji, S., Weaver, N. D., … Cano, J. (2020). Predicting the Environmental Suitability and Population at Risk of Podoconiosis in Africa. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.04.977827
rnaturalearth
CRAN Peer-reviewed

World Map Data from Natural Earth

Philippe Massicotte
Description

Facilitates mapping by making natural earth map data from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ more easily available to R users.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Chapman, C. A., Omeja, P. A., Kalbitzer, U., Fan, P., & Lawes, M. J. (2018). Restoration Provides Hope for Faunal Recovery: Changes in Primate Abundance Over 45 Years in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Tropical Conservation Science, 11, 194008291878737. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082918787376
  2. Farache, F. H. A., Pereira, C. B., Koschnitzke, C., Barros, L. O., Souza, E. M. de C., Felício, D. T., … Pereira, R. A. S. (2018). The unknown followers: Discovery of a new species of Sycobia Walker (Hymenoptera: Epichrysomallinae) associated with Ficus benjamina L (Moraceae) in the Neotropical region. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 67, 85–102. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.67.29733
  3. Zizka, A., Silvestro, D., Andermann, T., Azevedo, J., Duarte Ritter, C., Edler, D., … Antonelli, A. (2019). CoordinateCleaner: standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13152
  4. Atickem, A., Stenseth, N. C., Fashing, P. J., Nguyen, N., Chapman, C. A., Bekele, A., … Kalbitzer, U. (2019). Build science in Africa. Nature, 570(7761), 297–300. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01885-1
  5. Umlauf, N., Klein, N., Simon, T., & Zeileis, A. (2019). bamlss: A Lego Toolbox for Flexible Bayesian Regression (and Beyond). arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11784. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11784
  6. Rodewald, A. D., Strimas-Mackey, M., Schuster, R., & Arcese, P. (2019). Tradeoffs in the value of biodiversity feature and cost data in conservation prioritization. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52241-2
  7. Næss, M. W. (2019). From hunter-gatherers to nomadic pastoralists: forager bands do not tell the whole story of the evolution of human cooperation. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/9c8bm
  8. Marshall, B. M., & Strine, C. T. (2019). Exploring snake occurrence records: Spatial biases and marginal gains from accessible social media. PeerJ, 7, e8059. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8059
  9. Czernecki, B., Głogowski, A., & Nowosad, J. (2020). Climate: An R Package to Access Free In-Situ Meteorological and Hydrological Datasets For Environmental Assessment. Sustainability, 12(1), 394. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12010394
  10. Rego, A., Sousa, A. G. G., Santos, J. P., Pascoal, F., Canário, J., Leão, P. N., & Magalhães, C. (2020). Diversity of Bacterial Biosynthetic Genes in Maritime Antarctica. Microorganisms, 8(2), 279. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020279
  11. Eastman, R. T., Roth, J. S., Brimacombe, K. R., Simeonov, A., Shen, M., Patnaik, S., & Hall, M. D. (2020). Remdesivir: A Review of Its Discovery and Development Leading to Emergency Use Authorization for Treatment of COVID-19. ACS Central Science, 6(5), 672–683. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.0c00489
  12. Ozturk, R. C., & Altinok, I. (2020). Interaction of Plastics with Marine Species. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 20(8). https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v20_8_07
  13. Deconinck, D., Volckaert, F. A. M., Hostens, K., Panicz, R., Eljasik, P., Faria, M., … Derycke, S. (2020). A high-quality genetic reference database for European commercial fishes reveals substitution fraud of processed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and common sole (Solea solea) at different steps in the Belgian supply chain. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 141, 111417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111417
  14. Connors, B., Malick, M. J., Ruggerone, G. T., Rand, P., Adkison, M., Irvine, J. R., … Gorman, K. (2020). Climate and competition influence sockeye salmon population dynamics across the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 77(6), 943–949. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0422
  15. Runge, C. A., Hausner, V. H., Daigle, R. M., & Monz, C. A. (2020). Pan-Arctic analysis of cultural ecosystem services using social media and automated content analysis. Environmental Research Communications, 2(7), 075001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab9c33
  16. Swetnam, D. M., Stuart, J. B., Young, K., Maharaj, P. D., Fang, Y., Garcia, S., … Coffey, L. L. (2020). Movement of St. Louis encephalitis virus in the Western United States, 2014- 2018. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(6), e0008343. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008343
  17. Kurose, D., Pollard, K. M., & Ellison, C. A. (2020). Chloroplast DNA analysis of the invasive weed, Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), in the British Isles. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67871-0
  18. Lawlor, J. A., & Arellano, S. M. (2020). Temperature and salinity, not acidification, predict near-future larval growth and larval habitat suitability of Olympia oysters in the Salish Sea. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69568-w
  19. Cahill, C. L., Anderson, S. C., Paul, A. J., MacPherson, L., Sullivan, M. G., van Poorten, B. T., … & Post, J. R. (2020). A spatial-temporal approach to modeling somatic growth across inland recreational fisheries landscapes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, (ja). https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2019-0434
  20. Chugunkova, A. V., & Pyzhev, A. I. (2020). Impacts of Global Climate Change on Duration of Logging Season in Siberian Boreal Forests. Forests, 11(7), 756. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11070756
  21. Kakioka, R., Mori, S., Kokita, T., Hosoki, T. K., Nagano, A. J., Ishikawa, A., … Kitano, J. (2020). Multiple waves of freshwater colonization of the three-spined stickleback in the Japanese Archipelago. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-59443/v1
  22. Yeşilkanat, C. M. (2020). Spatio-temporal estimation of the daily cases of COVID-19 in worldwide using random forest machine learning algorithm. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 140, 110210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110210
  23. Obradovich, N., Özak, Ö., Martín, I., Ortuño-Ortín, I., Awad, E., Cebrián, M., … Cuevas, Á. (2020). Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans. National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27827
  24. Rycyk, A. M., Tyson Moore, R. B., Wells, R. S., McHugh, K. A., Berens McCabe, E. J., & Mann, D. A. (2020). Passive acoustic listening stations (PALS) show rapid onset of ecological effects of harmful algal blooms in real time. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74647-z
  25. Wenndt, A., Sudini, H. K., Pingali, P., & Nelson, R. (2020). Exploring aflatoxin contamination and household-level exposure risk in diverse Indian food systems. PLOS ONE, 15(10), e0240565. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240565
  26. Abbas, H. K., Zablotowicz, R. M., Bruns, H. A., & Abel, C. A. (2006). Biocontrol of aflatoxin in corn by inoculation with non-aflatoxigenicAspergillus flavusisolates. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 16(5), 437–449. https://doi.org/10.1080/09583150500532477
  27. Jacobs, E., Bittig, H. C., Gräwe, U., Graves, C. A., Glockzin, M., Müller, J. D., … Rehder, G. (2020). Upwelling-induced trace gas dynamics in the Baltic Sea inferred from 8 years of autonomous measurements on a ship of opportunity. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2020-365
  28. Hotez, P., Bottazzi, M. E., Strub-Wourgaft, N., Sosa-Estani, S., Torrico, F., Pajín, L., … Sancho, J. (2020). A new patient registry for Chagas disease. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(10), e0008418. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008418
  29. Raut, S. (2020). A computer vision approach to assess wood variability from whole-disk images of longleaf pine (Order No. 28023614). https://search.proquest.com/docview/2446699035
  30. Cramer, M. T., Fidler, R. Y., Penrod, L. M., Carroll, J., & Turingan, R. G. (2020). A spatiotemporal comparison of length-at-age in the coral reef fish Acanthurus nigrofuscus between marine reserves and fished reefs. PLOS ONE, 15(9), e0239842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239842
  31. Winter-Billington, A., Moore, R. D., & Dadic, R. (2020). Evaluating the transferability of empirical models of debris-covered glacier melt. Journal of Glaciology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.57
  32. Pellowe, K. E., & Leslie, H. M. (2020). Ecosystem service lens reveals diverse community values of small-scale fisheries. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01405-w
  33. Stresman, G., Whittaker, C., Slater, H. C., Bousema, T., & Cook, J. (2020). Quantifying Plasmodium falciparum infections clustering within households to inform household-based intervention strategies for malaria control programs: An observational study and meta-analysis from 41 malaria-endemic countries. PLOS Medicine, 17(10), e1003370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003370
  34. Lockley, E. C., Fouda, L., Correia, S. M., Taxonera, A., Nash, L. N., Fairweather, K., … Eizaguirre, C. (2020). Long-term survey of sea turtles (Caretta caretta) reveals correlations between parasite infection, feeding ecology, reproductive success and population dynamics. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75498-4
  35. Hirons, A. D., Watkins, J. H. R., Baxter, T. J., Miesbauer, J. W., Male‐Muñoz, A., Martin, K. W. E., … Sjöman, H. (2020). Using botanic gardens and arboreta to help identify urban trees for the future. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10162
  36. Alhajeri, B. H. (2020). A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Geographic Mandibular Variation in the Dwarf Gerbil Gerbillus nanus (Gerbillinae, Rodentia). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09530-9
  37. Tchokponhoué, D. A., Achigan-Dako, E. G., N’Danikou, S., Nyadanu, D., Kahane, R., Houéto, J., … Sibiya, J. (2020). Phenotypic variation, functional traits repeatability and core collection inference in Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach & Thonn.) Daniell reveals the Dahomey Gap as a centre of diversity. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76103-4
  38. Chung, M., Jørgensen, K. M., Trueman, C. N., Knutsen, H., Jorde, P. E., & Grønkjær, P. (2020). First measurements of field metabolic rate in wild juvenile fishes show strong thermal sensitivity but variations between sympatric ecotypes. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07647
  39. Evdokimova, E. V., Gladkov, G. V., Kuzina, N. I., Ivanova, E. A., Kimeklis, A. K., Zverev, A. O., … Andronov, E. E. (2020). The difference between cellulolytic “culturomes” and microbiomes inhabiting two contrasting soil types. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0242060. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242060
  40. Hobson, K. A., Jinguji, H., Ichikawa, Y., Kusack, J. W., & Anderson, R. C. (2020). Long-Distance Migration of the Globe Skimmer Dragonfly to Japan Revealed Using Stable Hydrogen (δ 2H) Isotopes. Environmental Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaa147
  41. Bennie, J. A., De Cocker, K., Smith, J. J., & Wiesner, G. H. (2020). The epidemiology of muscle-strengthening exercise in Europe: A 28-country comparison including 280,605 adults. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0242220. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242220
  42. Rose Vineer, H., Morgan, E. R., Hertzberg, H., Bartley, D. J., Bosco, A., Charlier, J., … Rinaldi, L. (2020). Increasing importance of anthelmintic resistance in European livestock: creation and meta-analysis of an open database. Parasite, 27, 69. https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2020062
  43. Farooq, H., Azevedo, J. A. R., Soares, A., Antonelli, A., & Faurby, S. (2020). Mapping Africa’s Biodiversity: More of the Same Is Just Not Good Enough. Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa090
  44. Shaw, E. C., Fowler, R., Ohadi, S., Bayly, M. J., Barrett, R. A., Tibbits, J., … Cousens, R. D. (2020). Explaining the worldwide distributions of two highly mobile species: Cakile edentula and Cakile maritima. Journal of Biogeography, 48(3), 603–615. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14024
  45. Pogorevc, N., Simčič, M., Khayatzadeh, N., Soelkner, J., Berger, B., Bojkovski, D., … Horvat, S. (2020). Post-Genotyping Optimization of Dataset Formation Could Affect Genetic Diversity Parameters: An Example of Analyses with Alpine Goat Breeds. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-133590/v1
  46. Ionela-Andreea, P., & Marian, N. (2020). Cluster Analysis of Regional Research and Development Disparities in Europe. Studies in Business and Economics, 15(3), 303–312. https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2020-0060
  47. Mari, A., Roloff, T.-C., Stange, M., Soegaard, K. K., Asllanaj, E., Tauriello, G., … Egli, A. (2021). Global surveillance of potential antiviral drug resistance in SARS-CoV-2: proof of concept focussing on the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248663
  48. Changmai, P., Jaisamut, K., Kampuansai, J., Kutanan, W., Altınışık, N. E., Flegontova, O., … Flegontov, P. (2021). Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations. doi:10.1101/2021.01.21.427591
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  50. Meca, M. A., Zhadan, A., & Struck, T. H. (2021). The Early Branching Group of Orbiniida Sensu Struck et al., 2015: Parergodrilidae and Orbiniidae. Diversity, 13(1), 29. doi:10.3390/d13010029
  51. Lovell, J. T., MacQueen, A. H., Mamidi, S., Bonnette, J., Jenkins, J., Napier, J. D., … Shu, S. (2021). Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass. Nature, 590(7846), 438–444. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03127-1

A Unifying API for Calling the Unity 3D Video Game Engine

Michael Mahoney
Description

Functions for the creation and manipulation of scenes and objects within the Unity 3D video game engine (https://unity.com/). Specific focuses include the creation and import of terrain data and GameObjects as well as scene management.

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A Tidy Approach to NetCDF Data Exploration and Extraction

Michael Sumner
Description

Tidy tools for NetCDF data sources. Explore the contents of a NetCDF source (file or URL) presented as variables organized by grid with a database-like interface. The hyper_filter() interactive function translates the filter value or index expressions to array-slicing form. No data is read until explicitly requested, as a data frame or list of arrays via hyper_tibble() or hyper_array().

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osmplotr
Peer-reviewed

Bespoke Images of OpenStreetMap Data

Mark Padgham
Description

Bespoke images of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data and data visualisation using OSM objects.

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landscapetools
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Landscape Utility Toolbox

Marco Sciaini
Description

Provides utility functions for some of the less-glamorous tasks involved in landscape analysis. It includes functions to coerce raster data to the common tibble format and vice versa, it helps with flexible reclassification tasks of raster data and it provides a function to merge multiple raster. Furthermore, landscapetools helps landscape scientists to visualize their data by providing optional themes and utility functions to plot single landscapes, rasterstacks, -bricks and lists of raster.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Langhammer, M., Thober, J., Lange, M., Frank, K., & Grimm, V. (2019). Agricultural landscape generators for simulation models: A review of existing solutions and an outline of future directions. Ecological Modelling, 393, 135–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.12.010
  2. Etherington, T., & Omondiagbe, O. (2019). virtualNicheR: generating virtual fundamental and realised niches for use in virtual ecology experiments. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(41), 1661. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01661
  3. Betts, M. G., Wolf, C., Pfeifer, M., Banks-Leite, C., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Ribeiro, D. B., … Ewers, R. M. (2019). Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals. Science, 366(6470), 1236–1239. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9387
  4. Scherer, C., Radchuk, V., Franz, M., Thulke, H., Lange, M., Grimm, V., & Kramer‐Schadt, S. (2020). Moving infections: individual movement decisions drive disease persistence in spatially structured landscapes. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07002
  5. Silva, I., Crane, M., Marshall, B. M., & Strine, C. T. (2020). Revisiting reptile home ranges: moving beyond traditional estimators with dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.10.941278

Simulating Neutral Landscape Models

Marco Sciaini
Description

Provides neutral landscape models (doi:10.1007/BF02275262, http://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/bf02275262). Neutral landscape models range from “hard” neutral models (completely random distributed), to “soft” neutral models (definable spatial characteristics) and generate landscape patterns that are independent of ecological processes. Thus, these patterns can be used as null models in landscape ecology. NLMR combines a large number of algorithms from other published software for simulating neutral landscapes. The simulation results are obtained in a spatial data format (raster* objects from the raster package) and can, therefore, be used in any sort of raster data operation that is performed with standard observation data.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Langhammer, M., Thober, J., Lange, M., Frank, K., & Grimm, V. (2019). Agricultural landscape generators for simulation models: A review of existing solutions and an outline of future directions. Ecological Modelling, 393, 135–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.12.010
  2. Fletcher, R., & Fortin, M.-J. (2018). Land-Cover Pattern and Change. Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling, 55–100. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01989-1_3
  3. Harris, M. (2019). KLRfome - Kernel Logistic Regression on Focal Mean Embeddings. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(35), 722. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00722
  4. Etherington, T., & Omondiagbe, O. (2019). virtualNicheR: generating virtual fundamental and realised niches for use in virtual ecology experiments. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(41), 1661. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01661
  5. Betts, M. G., Wolf, C., Pfeifer, M., Banks-Leite, C., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Ribeiro, D. B., … Ewers, R. M. (2019). Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals. Science, 366(6470), 1236–1239. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9387
  6. Scherer, C., Radchuk, V., Franz, M., Thulke, H., Lange, M., Grimm, V., & Kramer‐Schadt, S. (2020). Moving infections: individual movement decisions drive disease persistence in spatially structured landscapes. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07002
  7. Silva, I., Crane, M., Marshall, B. M., & Strine, C. T. (2020). Revisiting reptile home ranges: moving beyond traditional estimators with dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.10.941278
  8. Dupont, G., Royle, J. A., Nawaz, M. A., & Sutherland, C. (2020). Optimal sampling design for spatial capture-recapture. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.045740
  9. Kuempel, C. D., Frazier, M., Nash, K. L., Jacobsen, N. S., Williams, D. R., Blanchard, J. L., … Halpern, B. S. (2020). Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food’s Cumulative Environmental Footprint. One Earth, 3(1), 65–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014
  10. Silva, I., Crane, M., Marshall, B. M., & Strine, C. T. (2020). Reptiles on the wrong track? Moving beyond traditional estimators with dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models. Movement Ecology, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00229-3
  11. Braziunas, K. H., Seidl, R., Rammer, W., & Turner, M. G. (2020). Can we manage a future with more fire? Effectiveness of defensible space treatment depends on housing amount and configuration. Landscape Ecology, 36(2), 309–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01162-x
  12. Thompson, P. R., Derocher, A. E., Edwards, M. A., & Lewis, M. A. (2021). Describing spatiotemporal memory patterns using animal movement modelling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04183. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.04183
  13. Savary, P., Foltête, J., Moal, H., Vuidel, G., & Garnier, S. (2021). Analysing landscape effects on dispersal networks and gene flow with genetic graphs. Molecular Ecology Resources, 21(4), 1167–1185. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13333

Create Geographic and Non-Geographic Map Tiles

Matthew Leonawicz
Description

Creates geographic map tiles from geospatial map files or non-geographic map tiles from simple image files. This package provides a tile generator function for creating map tile sets for use with packages such as leaflet. In addition to generating map tiles based on a common raster layer source, it also handles the non-geographic edge case, producing map tiles from arbitrary images. These map tiles, which have a non-geographic, simple coordinate reference system (CRS), can also be used with leaflet when applying the simple CRS option. Map tiles can be created from an input file with any of the following extensions: tif, grd and nc for spatial maps and png, jpg and bmp for basic images. This package requires Python and the gdal library for Python. Windows users are recommended to install OSGeo4W (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/) as an easy way to obtain the required gdal support for Python.

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Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates

Alban Sagouis
Description

Parse messy geographic coordinates from various character formats to decimal degree numeric values. Parse coordinates into their parts (degree, minutes, seconds); calculate hemisphere from coordinates; pull out individually degrees, minutes, or seconds; add and subtract degrees, minutes, and seconds. C++ code herein originally inspired from code written by Jeffrey D. Bogan, but then completely re-written.

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PostcodesioR
CRAN Peer-reviewed

API Wrapper Around Postcodes.io

Eryk Walczak
Description

Free UK geocoding using data from Office for National Statistics. It is using several functions to get information about post codes, outward codes, reverse geocoding, nearest post codes/outward codes, validation, or randomly generate a post code. API wrapper around https://postcodes.io.

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Dealing with Multiplatform Satellite Images

Unai Pérez - Goya
Description

Downloading, customizing, and processing time series of satellite images for a region of interest. rsat functions allow a unified access to multispectral images from Landsat, MODIS and Sentinel repositories. rsat also offers capabilities for customizing satellite images, such as tile mosaicking, image cropping and new variables computation. Finally, rsat covers the processing, including cloud masking, compositing and gap-filling/smoothing time series of images (Militino et al., 2018 doi:10.3390/rs10030398 and Militino et al., 2019 doi:10.1109/TGRS.2019.2904193).

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mapscanner
CRAN Peer-reviewed

Print Maps, Draw on Them, Scan Them Back in

Mark Padgham
Description

Enables preparation of maps to be printed and drawn on. Modified maps can then be scanned back in, and hand-drawn marks converted to spatial objects.

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slopes
Peer-reviewed

Calculate Slopes of Roads, Rivers and Trajectories

Robin Lovelace
Description

Functions and example data to support research into the slope (also known as longitudinal gradient or steepness) of linear geographic entities such as roads doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0147-x and rivers doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.066. The package was initially developed to calculate the steepness of street segments but can be used to calculate steepness of any linear feature that can be represented as LINESTRING geometries in the sf class system. The package takes two main types of input data for slope calculation: vector geographic objects representing linear features, and raster geographic objects with elevation values (which can be downloaded using functionality in the package) representing a continuous terrain surface. Where no raster object is provided the package attempts to download elevation data using the ceramic package.

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wellknown
CRAN

Convert Between WKT and GeoJSON

Scott Chamberlain
Description

Convert WKT to GeoJSON and GeoJSON to WKT. Functions included for converting between GeoJSON to WKT, creating both GeoJSON features, and non-features, creating WKT from R objects (e.g., lists, data.frames, vectors), and linting WKT.

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grainchanger

Moving-Window and Direct Data Aggregation

Laura Graham
Description

Data aggregation via moving window or direct methods. Aggregate a fine-resolution raster to a grid. The moving window method smooths the surface using a specified function within a moving window of a specified size and shape prior to aggregation. The direct method simply aggregates to the grid using the specified function.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Robitaille, A. L., Webber, Q. M. R., Turner, J. W., & Wal Eric, V. (2020). The problem and promise of scale in multilayer animal social networks. Current Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa052
rnaturalearthdata
CRAN

World Vector Map Data from Natural Earth Used in rnaturalearth

Andy South
Description

Vector map data from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/. Access functions are provided in the accompanying package rnaturalearth.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Rice, A., Šmarda, P., Novosolov, M., Drori, M., Glick, L., Sabath, N., … Mayrose, I. (2019). The global biogeography of polyploid plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(2), 265–273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0787-9
  2. Bennie, J. A., De Cocker, K., Smith, J. J., & Wiesner, G. H. (2020). The epidemiology of muscle-strengthening exercise in Europe: A 28-country comparison including 280,605 adults. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0242220. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242220
geonames
CRAN

Interface to the "Geonames" Spatial Query Web Service

Barry Rowlingson
Description

The web service at https://www.geonames.org/ provides a number of spatial data queries, including administrative area hierarchies, city locations and some country postal code queries. A (free) username is required and rate limits exist.

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Scientific use cases
  1. Harsch, M. A., & HilleRisLambers, J. (2016). Climate Warming and Seasonal Precipitation Change Interact to Limit Species Distribution Shifts across Western North America. PLOS ONE, 11(7), e0159184. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159184
  2. Ummel, K. (2012). CARMA revisited: an updated database of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants worldwide. Center for Global Development Working Paper, (304). http://www.cgdev.org/publication/carma-revisited-updated-database-carbon-dioxide-emissions-power-plants-worldwide-working
  3. Kolb, J.-P. (2016). Visualizing GeoData with R. Austrian Journal of Statistics, 45(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.17713/ajs.v45i1.88
  4. Kevin Ummel. 2012. “CARMA Revisited: An Updated Database of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide.” CGD Working Paper 304. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development. http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1426429
  5. Holzmeyer, L., Hartig, A.-K., Franke, K., Brandt, W., Muellner-Riehl, A. N., Wessjohann, L. A., & Schnitzler, J. (2020). Evaluation of plant sources for antiinfective lead compound discovery by correlating phylogenetic, spatial, and bioactivity data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(22), 12444–12451. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915277117
  6. Grattarola, F., González, A., Mai, P., Cappuccio, L., Fagúndez-Pachón, C., Rossi, F., … Pincheira-Donoso, D. (2020). Biodiversidata: A novel dataset for the vascular plant species diversity in Uruguay. Biodiversity Data Journal, 8. https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.8.e56850