Docker-based Geospatial toolkit for R, built on versioned Rocker images built with support for Tensorflow GPU operations.
This image extends the experimental rocker-ml stack with geospatial-related tools, particularly those that can be difficult or slow to add on-the-fly. As such, this image includes RStudio and the tidyverse packages. It also includes the magick package to enable fast image processing/manipulation operations.
The full dependency tree for this image is:
debian:stretch -->
rocker/r-ver:3.6.0 -->
rocker/rstudio:3.6.0 -->
rocker/tidyverse:3.6.0 -->
rocker/cuda:3.6.0 -->
rocker/tensorflow:3.6.0 -->
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The tensorflow configuration uses a Python 3 virtual environment (venv) that R acesses via the reticulate, tensorflow, and keras packages.
The packages included in this image are not meant to provide a kitchen-sink of all geo-spatially related R packages, see the Spatial Task View and SpatioTemporal Task View on CRAN. This image seeks to provide a more opinionated collection of packages, prioritizing those packages that can be slow or tricky to install due to compiled code and external dependencies, and with an emphasis on more general-purpose libraries and classes.
Please note that many additional geospatial (and other) packages are pulled in as dependencies of this list and thus can also be found on the image.
| Package | Maintainer | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RColorBrewer | Colors for maps and other plots | |
| RandomFields | Schlather | Methods for the inference on and the simulation of Gaussian fields, and simulation of extreme value random fields. |
| RNetCDF | Woods | Bindings to C API NetCDF library, with udunits |
| classInt | Bivand | Selected commonly used methods for choosing univariate class intervals for mapping or other graphics purposes. |
| deldir | Turner | Delaunay Triangulation and Dirichlet (Voronoi) Tessellation |
| gstat | Pebesma | Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Modelling, Prediction and Simulation |
| hdf5r | Hoefling | Modern bindings to HF5 C API (replaces hf package) |
| lidR | Roussel | Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) interface for data manipulation and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' file |
| mapdata | Deckmyn | Extra map data for the maps package (originally from S) |
| maptools | Bivand | Set of tools for manipulating and reading geographic data, in particular ESRI Shapefiles. (See rgdal and sf for more comprehensive I/O) |
| mapview | Appelhans | sf-compatible interactive map viewer, extends leaflet |
| ncdf4 | Pierce | raster-package compatible netcdf bindings |
| proj4 | Urbanek | A simple interface to lat/long projection and datum transformation. See sf implementation as well. |
| raster | Hijmans | Reading, writing, manipulating, analyzing and modeling of gridded spatial data. |
| rgdal | Bivand | Interface to GDAL, I/O formats. See sf for more recent implementation |
| rgeos | Bivand | Interface to GEOS (geometry operations). See sf for more recent implementation |
| sf | Pebesma | Simple-features oriented replacement for sp, rgdal, rgeos, and proj4 libraries, includes dplyr-style methods. |
| sp | Pebesma | Original & widely used spatial object class |
| spacetime | Pebesma | Classes and Methods for Spatio-Temporal Data |
| spatstat | Baddeley | Large spatial statistics package: Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests |
| spatialreg | Bivand | Spatial Regression Analysis: Spatatial Autregressive Models (formerly in spdep) |
| spdep | Bivand | Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics and Models |
| tmap | Tennekes | Thematic, layer-based maps (sf and sp compatible) |
| geoR | Ribeiro | Geostatistical analysis including traditional, likelihood-based and Bayesian methods. |
| geosphere | Hijmans | Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations. |
| magick | Ooms | Bindings to 'ImageMagick': the most comprehensive open-source image processing library available. |
| gdalUtils | Greenberg | Wrappers for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Utilities. |
The sf and rgdal packages use a number of features from the GDAL utility, but the GDAL version they leverage is not compiled with write support for some file drivers.
This image adds the Debian package GDAL binaries that were compiled with support for writing the JPEG2000 (.jp2) image format. Its capabilities can be accessed with the gdalUtils R package.