R for Geospatial Data Analysis: Learning Resources

GIS & Geospatial Data Analysis (Fall 2025)

Extra Resources

Please check out the Resources page of the main course site, there are already many books and online publications that can support your out-of-classroom GIS learning.

I hope this page will also be helpful by putting together urls that I mentioned in TA session.

Cheatsheets

In this section, I gathered the following cheatsheets for most of the packages that we have been using in this class, mainly from the Posit cheatsheets listing page, and rstudio github page

Packages that would be loaded when you call library(tidyverse)

tidyverse
dplyr	tidyr	stringr
readr	purrr	lubridate
ggplot		forcats

Base R

• baseR cheatsheet

R Spatial

• sf

Other Documentations

Package Manuals and Books

• sf
• spatstat
• spdep:
  • spdep book
  • spdep functions
• sfdep: sfdep

• mapview
• rnaturalearth
• r-spatial
• ggplot for sf
• leaflet

• terra
• stars
• tidyterra

Finding Help

• Google the error message you received, and look for links to github issues in the results page