A package that provides simple features access for R.
Install with:
library(devtools)
install_github("edzer/sfr")This currently works directly under windows with R 3.3.0 or newer when Rtools is installed. For Mac, see here. For Unix-alikes, a recent C++ compiler (c++11), GDAL (>= 2.0.0), and GEOS (>= 3.3.0) are needed.
For example, to install these libraries on Ubuntu, either:
- add ubuntugis-unstable to the package repositories (e.g. with
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstableand thensudo apt-get install libgdal-dev libgeos++-dev), or - install from source; see the travis config file for hints
See also:
- the original R Consortium ISC proposal, the R Consortium blog post
- UseR! 2016 presentation
- blog posts: first, second, third
- package vignettes: first, second
The sf package:
- represents natively in R all 17 simple feature types for all dimensions (XY, XYZ, XYM, XYZM)
- uses S3 classes: simple features are
data.frameobjects (or similar) that have a geometry list-column - interfaces to GEOS to support the DE9-IM
- interfaces to GDAL with driver dependent dataset or layer creation options, Date and DateTime (
POSIXct) columns, and coordinate reference system transformations through PROJ.4 - provides fast I/O with GDAL and GEOS using well-known-binary written in C++/Rcpp
- directly reads from and writes to spatial databases such as PostGIS using DBI
This project is being realized with financial support from the
