extRatum

An R package that calculates summary indices for built environment characteristics.

Overview

extRatum is a package used to provide summary statistics of local geospatial features within a given geographic area. It does so by calculating the area covered by a target geospatial feature (i.e. buildings, parks, lakes, etc.). The geospatial features can be of any type of geospatial data, including point, polygon or line data. For examples of extRatum functionalities follow this link and for the package website this link.

Installation

The easiest way to get extRatum is to install it from CRAN:

install.packages("extRatum")

Development version

To get a bug fix or to use a feature from the development version, you can install the development version of extRatum from GitHub.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("patnik/extRatum")

Citation

To extract extRatum citation, type the following code.

citation('extRatum')

To cite package 'extRatum' in publications use:

 Nikos Patias and Francisco Rowe (2021). extRatum: Summary Statistics
 for Geospatial Features. R package version 1.0.4.
 https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=extRatum
 
 A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
 @Manual{,
 title = {extRatum: Summary Statistics for Geospatial Features},
 author = {Nikos Patias and Francisco Rowe},
 year = {2021},
 note = {R package version 1.0.4},
 url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=extRatum},
 }