1.7 The history of R-spatial

  • 1990s development of numerous S scripts/package

  • 2000 R packages for spatial methods (points patterns, geostatistics, EDA)

  • 2008 Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R first edition ({rgdal} 2003, {sp} 2005)

  • 2009:{Rgooglemaps}, {ggmap} (basemap for ggplot2)

  • 2010: {rgeos} / {raster}

  • 2018: Breaking change PROJ: proj string –> WKT

  • Huge increase in viz/carto packages: {gganimate}, {rayshader}, {tmap}, {mapview}, {mapsf}