This is the material for my 1 day course on Introduction to Spatial Data and Using R as a GIS. More details on my courses are available at http://www.nickbearman.com.

This course does not spend much time on the very basics of using R - if you want to find out more, there are some good tutorials at http://www.social-statistics.org/?p=764 or http://rpubs.com/nickbearman/gettingstartedwithr.

The material for this workshop is available here:

• The HTML of the handout with the practical instructions (HTML, 2.1 MB)
• The PDF of the handout with the practical instructions (PDF, 5.5 MB)

• The data used in the workshop (folder, total: 8.1 MB)

This practical was written using R 4.5.2 (2025-10-31), RStudio 2025.09.2+418 and tmap 4.2 by Dr. Nick Bearman (nick@nickbearman.com). It has also been tested in Posit Cloud, with R 4.5.1 (2025-06-13) and RStudio 2025.05.1.

This work (Introduction to Spatial Data and Using R as a GIS by Nick Bearman) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Material will be updated periodically, usually in line with courses run by Nick Bearman. It was last updated on 05/11/2025.