Geospatial Data Analysis Using R on AWS
R is a popular open source programming language widely used for statistical computing and visualization1. Its active community, extensive libraries, and flexibility make it a popular choice for data analytics, machine learning, and graphics. It provides a rich ecosystem of packages for handling, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial data. This chapter will explore the power of using AWS and R programming languages for geospatial data analysis. Diving deep into every geospatial R library is beyond the scope of this chapter, but we will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to the R geospatial data analysis ecosystem
- Setting up R on EC2
- RStudio on Amazon SageMaker
- Loading, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial data using R on AWS