Tim, WOW! This is very cool...
Using the tips from others, I did the following (to summarize): install.packages("leaflet",dependencies=T) library("devtools") install_github("environmentalinformatics-marburg/Rsenal") Works great in the few minutes I've tried it. Thanks!! Tom On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Tim Appelhans <tim.appelh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list members, > > I would like to draw your attention to a little 'project' I've been > working on over the past few weeks. > > Using leaflet for R, I have defined some methods for spatial data (e.g. > Raster*, Spatial* objects) to quickly visualise them in either the > RStudio Viewer pan or the default web browser. The function I created > for this is called mapView(). > > Think of it as an interactive version of spplot()/plot() for spatial > data (though less versatile). It enables zooming, paning and basic layer > queries (i.e. printing of the attributes in the @data slot of Spatial* > objects + the x/y location of the feature). For Raster* objects queries > are currently not available as leaflet translates the data into RGB > values for display. Furthermore, background maps can be defined and > multiple different spatial object layers can be overlaid. > At the moment mapView() lives in our Rsenal package on github > (https://github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/Rsenal) but this is > likely going to change at some point in the not too distant future. This > also depends on whether there is active interest in developping this > sort of thing further to provide more than the current admittedly rather > limited functionality. This, however, would involve JavaScript coding > which I do not have any experience with. > > A quick (non-interactive) intorduction can be found here: > > https://metvurst.wordpress.com/ > > The full introductory article including interactive examples is > published here: > > > http://environmentalinformatics-marburg.github.io/web-presentations/20150723_mapView.html > > I hope this may prove useful for some of you. > Also, if anyone is keen to get involved in taking this further, please > let me know and we will see how to best proceed. > > Best, > Tim > > -- > ##################################### > Tim Appelhans > Department of Geography > Environmental Informatics > Philipps Universität Marburg > Deutschhausstraße 12 > 35032 Marburg (Paketpost: 35037 Marburg) > Germany > > Tel +49 (0) 6421 28-25957 > > http://environmentalinformatics-marburg.de/ > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > -- Thomas E Adams, III 718 McBurney Drive Lebanon, OH 45036 1 (513) 739-9512 (cell) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo