gisaimsr

Overview

gisaimsr is a data package that provides the user with easy access to GIS data (in Simple Features data.frame format) that are focused on the Great Barrier Reef. All datasets are based on the GDA2020 coordinate system.

Available Datasets

Datasets are provided by Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA). All datasets are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Please see our LICENSE file for full further regarding usage and redistribution of these datasets. See this link for more information about each dataset.

Installation

At this stage gisaimsr is not hosted on CRAN R package network. An alternative method of installation is to use the remotes R package.

remotes can be installed using the following command:

install.packages("remotes")

After remotes has been installed gisaimsr can be installed directly from GitHub using the following command:

remotes::install_github("https://github.com/open-AIMS/gisaimsr")

This command will install the dependencies: sf and dataaimsr.

Notice that the dependency dataaimsr can also be installed using remotes:

remotes::install_github("https://github.com/ropensci/dataaimsr")

Usage

See our on-line vignette. Alternatively, you can build them locally in R:

utils::browseVignettes("gisaimsr")

Further Information

Further information about gisaimsr can be seen on the on-line project page.

gisaimsr is provided by the Australian Institute of Marine Science under the MIT License (MIT).

AIMS R package logos

Our R package logos use a watercolour map of Australia, obtained with the ggmap R package, which downloads original map tiles provided by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0, with data from OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.