dggridR | Discrete Global Grids for R : Spatial Analysis Done Right | Map library

dggridR is a C++ library typically used in Geo, Map applications. dggridR has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

You want to do spatial statistics, and it’s going to involve binning. Binning with a rectangular grid introduces messy distortions. At the macro-scale using a rectangular grid does things like making Greenland bigger than the United States and Antarctica the largest continent. But this kind of distortion is present no matter what the resolution is; in fact, it shows up whenever you project a sphere onto a plane. What you want are bins of equal size, regardless of where they are on the globe, regardless of their resolution. dggridR solves this problem. dggridR builds discrete global grids which partition the surface of the Earth into hexagonal, triangular, or diamond cells, all of which have the same size. (There are some minor caveats which are detailed in the vignettes.). ![Discrete Global Grid in use] vignettes/dggrid.png). (Naturally, you can use much smaller cells than those shown in the image above.). This package includes everything you need to make spatial binning great again. Many details and examples are included in the vignette.