Review of Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R by R. S. Bivand, E. J. Pebesma, and V. Gomez-Rubio

Most authors struggle to pick a title that adequately conveys all of the material covered in a book. When I first saw Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, I expected a review of spatial statistical models and their applications in packages (libraries) from the CRAN site of R. The authors’ title is not misleading, but I was very pleasantly surprised by how deep the word “applied” is here. The first half of the book essentially covers how R handles spatial data. To some statisticians this may be boring. Do you want, or need, to know the difference between S3 and S4 classes, how spatial objects in R are organized, and how various methods work on the spatial objects? A few years ago I would have said “no,” especially to the “want” part. Just let me slap my EXCEL spreadsheet into R and run some spatial functions on it. Unfortunately, the world is not so simple, and ultimately we want to minimize effort to get all of our spatial analyses accomplished. The first half of this book certainly convinced me that some extra effort in organizing my data into certain spatial class structures makes the analysis easier and less subject to mistakes. I also admit that I found it very interesting and I learned a lot.

Kitāb-i ashʻār-i malik al-shuʻārāʼ Amīr Muʻizzī : manuscript, 1156

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Taẕkirah-ʼi ashʻār-i zanān-i vilāyat-i Īrān va-ghayruhu musammá ba-Javāhir al-ʻajāyib : manuscript, 1849

Unbound.

Hādhā Taqrīr-i farāʼiẓ [sic] : manuscript, [1747]

Paginated 94-101.

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, esq., F. R. S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II, comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the original short-hand ms. in the Pepysian library, and a selection from his private correspondence. Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke.

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Regola, e costituzioni di vita comune, da osservarsi dalle monache claustrali di Santa Maria di Misericordia, dell'Ordine de' Servi di Maria, sotto la pastorale facoltáa dell'illämo, e rämo monsignore Antonio de' conti Guidi Talenti di Bagno, vescovo di Mantova, assistente al solio pontificio, e principe del S.R.I.

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Reed-Read lineage; Captain John Reed of Providence R.I. and Norwalk, Conn. and his descendants through his sons, John and Thomas, 1660-1909,

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Reauthorization of the Anadromous fish conservation act [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on Resource Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on S. 838 ... March 5, 1979, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1979, Warwick, R.I.

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ASCS employees, Federal justices, judges, and certain dependent children [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Employment [i.e. Employee] Benefits of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on S. 383, H.R. 2583, and H.R. 2584, July 24, 1979.

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A discourse, delivered in Chepachet, R.I., December 5, 1830, before the Glocester Temperance Association, and published at their request,

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The cross and anchor written for the fair, in aid of the Mariner's church, Providence, R. I., April, 1844.

Bookplate of Henry B. Anthony.

Reminiscences of the late Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D., of Newport, R. I. : illustrative of his character and doctrines, with incidental subjects: From an intimacy with him of twenty-one years, while pastor of a sister church in said town /

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A sermon, preached November 26, 1829, being the day of Thanksgiving : containing a history of the origin and growth of the Second Baptist church in Newport, (R.I.) /

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Naval strategy compared and contrasted with the principles and practice of military operations on land : lectures delivered at the U.S. Naval war college, Newport, R.I., between the years 1887 and 1911 /

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