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R Notebooks: A New Paradigm for Geospatial Data Science

Tina A. Cormier

tina@telluslabs.com

@TinaACormier

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What is R?

  • an open source software project & programming language
  • known for stats & graphics
  • less known as a fully functional command line GIS.

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What is R?

http://spatial.ly/2012/02/great-maps-ggplot2/

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What is an R Notebook?

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“An R Notebook is an R Markdown document with [code] chunks that can be executed independently and interactively, with output visible immediately beneath the input.”

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What is an R Notebook?

  • Narrative, code, and output in one document

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  • An extension of R Markdown - a plain text format
    • Yes, it’s just a text file!

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  • Can output to dozens of shareable formats
    • html
    • pdf
    • Word

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  • rtf
  • Github flavor of md
  • Various presentation formats

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R Notebook File Format

  • The source code is in the .rmd file

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  • There is also an associated .nb.html file:
    • Contains the .rmd source code and output
    • Created automatically when html_notebook output is specified

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R Notebook Demo

Code: https://github.com/tacormier/FOSS4GNA_2018

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R Notebook Resources

Rmarkdown Cheat Sheet

RStudio Notebook Overview

RStudio Notebook Lesson

Free Place to Publish your Notebooks

Introduction to R Notebooks Video

Why use R Notebooks?

Blog on Jupyter Notebooks vs. R Notebooks

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