Welcome

This is the online home of Geocomputation with R, a book on geographic data analysis, visualization and modeling.

Note: This book has now been published by CRC Press in the R Series. You can buy the book from CRC Press, Wordery, or Amazon.

Inspired by bookdown and the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) movement, this book is open source. This ensures its contents are reproducible and publicly accessible for people worldwide.

The online version of the book is hosted at geocompr.robinlovelace.net and kept up-to-date by GitHub Actions, which provides information on its ‘build status’ as follows:

This version of the book was built on GH Actions on 2020-09-20.

How to contribute? bookdown makes editing a book as easy as editing a wiki, provided you have a GitHub account (sign-up at github.com). Once logged-in to GitHub, click on the ‘edit me’ icon highlighted with a red ellipse in the image below. This will take you to an editable version of the the source R Markdown file that generated the page you’re on: To raise an issue about the book’s content (e.g. code not running) or make a feature request, check-out the issue tracker. Maintainers and contributors must follow this repository’s CODE OF CONDUCT.