Support for simple feature access, a standardized way to encode and analyze spatial vector data. Binds to 'GDAL' doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5884351 for reading and writing data, to 'GEOS' doi: 10.5281/zenodo.11396894 for geometrical operations, and to 'PROJ' doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5884394 for projection conversions and datum transformations. Uses by default the 's2' package for geometry operations on geodetic (long/lat degree) coordinates.
References
Pebesma, E. and Bivand, R. (2023). Spatial Data Science: With Applications in R. Chapman and Hall/CRC. doi:10.1201/9780429459016 which is also found freely online at https://r-spatial.org/book/
Pebesma, E., 2018. Simple Features for R: Standardized Support for Spatial Vector Data. The R Journal 10 (1), 439-446, doi:10.32614/RJ-2018-009 (open access)
Author
Maintainer: Edzer Pebesma edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de (ORCID)
Other contributors:
Roger Bivand (ORCID) [contributor]
Etienne Racine [contributor]
Michael Sumner [contributor]
Ian Cook [contributor]
Tim Keitt [contributor]
Robin Lovelace [contributor]
Hadley Wickham [contributor]
Jeroen Ooms (ORCID) [contributor]
Kirill Müller [contributor]
Thomas Lin Pedersen [contributor]
Dan Baston [contributor]
Dewey Dunnington (ORCID) [contributor]