A guide comparing the ASGS spatial structures, demonstrating how to acquire these spatial structures using the absmapsdata package, and demonstrating how to define several non-ASGS structures.

A guide demonstrating several methods for computing centroids of areas, and a discussion of the pros and cons of each.

A guide demonstrating how to create fictitious maps that either resemble artificial square grids or more realistic looking geographic units like counties/suburbs.

A guide demonstrating how to create spatial polygon objects and how to manipulate them, e.g. finding intersections, unions, clipping them, etc.

The purpose of this document is to provide researchers with a practical guide on acquiring publicly available spatial data sets, detailing where the data is located and providing R code for downloading/reading in the data and associated shapefiles. Some plots of the data are also provided in a unified way.

A guide to help you in debugging errors when installing R, RStudio, R packages, and commonly used related software like WinBUGS, JAGS, and Stan.