Experimentation of spatial data analysis with terra in R.
Initially I used library(raster) but could not get data out via getData("GADM", ...). The US Davies server that hosts the RDS file is well known to be flakey (documented here and here).
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.utf8 LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.utf8
time zone: America/Vancouver
tzcode source: internal
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] lubridate_1.9.3 forcats_1.0.0 stringr_1.5.1 dplyr_1.1.4 purrr_1.0.2 tidyr_1.3.1 tibble_3.2.1 ggplot2_3.5.1
[9] tidyverse_2.0.0 terra_1.7-78 readr_2.1.5
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gtable_0.3.5 jsonlite_1.8.8 compiler_4.4.1 highr_0.11 tidyselect_1.2.1 Rcpp_1.0.13 jquerylib_0.1.4
[8] scales_1.3.0 yaml_2.3.10 fastmap_1.2.0 R6_2.5.1 generics_0.1.3 knitr_1.48 munsell_0.5.1
[15] bslib_0.8.0 pillar_1.9.0 tzdb_0.4.0 rlang_1.1.4 utf8_1.2.4 stringi_1.8.4 cachem_1.1.0
[22] xfun_0.46 sass_0.4.9 timechange_0.3.0 cli_3.6.3 withr_3.0.1 magrittr_2.0.3 digest_0.6.36
[29] grid_4.4.1 rstudioapi_0.16.0 hms_1.1.3 lifecycle_1.0.4 vctrs_0.6.5 evaluate_0.24.0 glue_1.7.0
[36] codetools_0.2-20 fansi_1.0.6 colorspace_2.1-1 rmarkdown_2.28 tools_4.4.1 pkgconfig_2.0.3 htmltools_0.5.8.1
> getRversion()
[1] ‘4.4.1’
2011 Census - Boundary files by Statistics Canada
BC Gazetteer by BC Data Catalogue