In-Class Exercise 02

This is a dummy blog post for testing out the various ins and outs of a Distill blog. In this in-class exercise, I learned how to handle geospatial data in R by using the sf package.

Getting Started

This code chunk performs three tasks:

• A packaging list call packages will be created. It consists of all the R packages required to accomplish this hands-on exercise.
• Next, the code chunk will check if the R packages in packages have been installed in R. If they have yet been installed, they will be installed.
• After all the R packages have been installed, they will be launched in RStudio environment.

packages <- c('sf', 'tidyverse')
for(p in packages){
  if(!require(p, character.only = T)){
    install.packages(p)
  }
  library(p, character.only = T)
}