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Robinlovelace / Creating-maps-in-R

Introductory tutorial on graphical display of geographical information in R.
https://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html
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data types and structures. #52

Closed koyo-jakanees closed 6 years ago

koyo-jakanees commented 6 years ago

Hi @Robinlovelace thank you guys for this great treasure. It would be extremely fab if you included/added like a chapter introducing the basic data types like strings, bool, int, array, and function syntax in brief(the most important ones at least) so that absolutely new beginners who are specifically interested in Rspatial would much simpler following through. Honestly i had to go through other tut which i wasn't really interested in.

Thank you. Davince

Robinlovelace commented 6 years ago

Hi Davince,

Would a link to another excellent resource be sufficient?

For example:

Spatial data classes in R are built on existing classes, starting from vectors, the building blocks of data frames and geometry objects. For more on this important topic please see other resources that cover data types in depth such as Chapter 20 Wickham and Grolemend (2016).

Out of interest have you checked-out our discussion of data types in section 2.1 of the forthcoming geocomputation with R by me, @Nowosad and @Jannes-m? Any feedback on that welcome. Plan to add that link if you're happy with it then close this issue.

koyo-jakanees commented 6 years ago

Hi Robin yes sure a link to another resource would be appreciated. Only opened this issue as a suggestion. so that one doesn't have to go to other resources to understand the basics of R then deep dive to spatial R.(i mean a lil bit of R structure) if you want to try out something real quick.. thanks.

Robinlovelace commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the input and yes, perhaps it would be worth adding something on data types here - feel free to put in a pull request adding a 'lil bit' on data types, I'd be happy to review it and most likely accept it.Thanks!