geom

The goal of geom is to provide low-level access to the GEOS library, supporting several common input/output formats to facilitate geoprocessing in R. This package tries to solve the “hard” problems associated with wrapping a C/C++ library, exposing an R API and a C++ API that can be used in dependency packages.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("paleolimbot/geom")

If you can load the package, you’re good to go!

library(geom)

Example

Create a line, buffer it, and plot!

line <- geo_wkt("LINESTRING (30 10, 10 30, 40 40)")
geo_plot(geos_buffer(line, width = 4), col = "grey90")
geo_plot_add(line)

Philosophy

• Minimize conversion between in-memory formats
• Operate one feature at a time
• Use vctrs where possible to make sure that geometry vectors can exist in a data frame.
• Clear size and type stability
• Don’t consider spatial constraints (That’s what sf is so good at!)