From 9ff1172054996c1fc2fefc6329c05b941777e896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ma=C3=ABlle=20Salmon?= Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:05:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add a bit more about spatial data --- README.Rmd | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd index 144fcb9..e8c2869 100644 --- a/README.Rmd +++ b/README.Rmd @@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ set the `"emodnet.wfs.quiet"` option to `TRUE`. options("emodnet.wfs.quiet" = TRUE) ``` +## Pre-requisites + +For users not familiar yet with geospatial data in R, we recommend the following resources: + +- [Spatial Data Science With Applications in R](https://r-spatial.org/book/) by Edzer Pebesma and Roger Bivand. + +- [Geocomputation with R](https://r.geocompx.org/) by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad and Jannes Muenchow. + +In the documentation we assume a basic familiarity with spatial data: knowing about coordinates and about projections / [coordinate reference systems (CRS)](https://r.geocompx.org/spatial-class#crs-intro). + ## Available services All available services are contained in the tibble returned by `emodnet_wfs()`.