You don't need GIS software to do GIS! All the usual GIS manipulations of spatial data, whether 'vector' or 'raster', can be accomplished using tools within the R universe. This 2 hour practical workshop introduces geospatial data wrangling in R and is aimed at anyone who wants to organise, clean, or otherwise manipulate geospatial data, whether to make maps or to perform basic geographical analysis. Performing these tasks in R has the added benefit of making your workflows repeatable. Attendees will learn about key concepts, such as spatial buffering, detecting overlaps and intersections between spatial data layers, spatial joins, aggregation of raster data, clipping/cropping data, changing map projections, and geospatial file formats. They will be able to experiment with these operations using the ‘sf’ and ‘terra’ packages. Some familiarity with R and the tidyverse is assumed.
