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lawn: An R client for the Turf Javascript Library for Geospatial Analysis |
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lawn is an R package to provide access to the geospatial analysis capabilities in the Turf javascript library [@r; @turfjs]. Turf expects data in GeoJSON format. Given that many datasets are now available natively in GeoJSON providing an easier method for conducting geospatial analyses on these datasets in R is desired. Additionally, many existing packages (e.g. sp and rgeos) do provide similar analysis capabilities; however, they require data be converted to sp objects and also have external dependencies (e.g. gdal and geos) that can be challenging to maintain on some systems [@bivand2013asdar; @rgeos; @gdal; @geos]. To address these challenges and facilitate geospatial analysis of GeoJSON formatted data, we developed the lawn package.