Add geographical methods

humaniverse / compositr

R package to build composite scores and indices

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Add geographical methods #4

Open MikeJohnPage opened 2 weeks ago

MikeJohnPage commented 2 weeks ago

Should this package be able to work with spatial data (e.g., sf)?
Should geographical functions such as this be incorporated?

matthewgthomas commented 1 week ago

Aggregating indices to different levels of geography is a key part of making an index, so let's move those geographical aggregation functions into this package.

{compositr} doesn't necessarily need to work with spatial data though. The aggregation functions just need lookup tables (provided by {geographr}) and population counts (provided by {geographr}) but I can't think of any need for boundaries and other spatial data.

MikeJohnPage commented 1 week ago

Should calculate_extent() and calculate_proportion() be removed from geographr once they are added to compositr (I think so)?

matthewgthomas commented 1 week ago

Yes please. They're also separately implemented and used in IMD, so can be removed from there too once added to compositr.