Publications by Robin Lovelace - R

GEOSTAT 2015: a write-up

The week before last I attended the GEOSTAT summer school in Lancaster. GEOSTAT is an annual week-long meeting devoted to ‘geostatistics’ (or ‘spatial statistics’ – we’ll come on to the difference subsequently). Having seen the impressive range of materials from previous ‘GEOSTATs’, I was greatly looking forward to the event as a ...

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R and other open source tools for Civil Engineering

Open source software has caused a quiet revolution in computing since the creation of the GPL license by Richard Stallman back in 1989. Yet it has been slow to gain ascendency in many areas, including Civil Engineering. This short post discusses this issue in the context of the uptake of QGIS and R for spatial analysis work, with reference to a l...

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stplanr 0.1.1

Version 0.1.1 of the package stplanr has been released on CRAN. This is a major update with many new functions and a new class definition, SpatialLinesNetwork, for route planning and network analysis using igraph. This short post, by myself and package co-author Richard Ellison, describes how stplanr can be used for transport resear...

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