spatstat

What is spatstat?

spatstat is an R package for analysing spatial point pattern data (and other kinds of spatial data). See the website www.spatstat.org or read the book.

This is the development version

This repository holds a copy of the current development version of spatstat.

This development version is more recent than the official release of spatstat on CRAN. Each official release of spatstat has a version number like 1.2-3 while the development version has a version number like 1.2-3.004 (which R recognises as a later version). Official releases occur every 8 weeks (the minimum time permitted by CRAN policies) while the development code is updated almost every day.

Where is the official release?

For the most recent official release of spatstat, see the CRAN page.

spatstat is now split into several packages

Recently we have started the process of splitting spatstat into several packages (as mandated by CRAN, because spatstat is very large).

Your existing code will still work: typing library(spatstat) will still give you access to all the functions in spatstat that you know from previous versions.

However, messages from R about the installation and loading of the package will now show that spatstat consists of several pieces. Currently there are four pieces:

• spatstat: contains the main functionality of the spatstat family.

• spatstat.data: contains the datasets for the spatstat family. The current development version of spatstat.data is here.

• spatstat.utils: utility functions originally included in spatstat which are now accessible as a separate package. The current development version of spatstat.utils is here.

• spatstat.sparse: functions for linear algebra and sparse arrays, originally included in spatstat which are now accessible as a separate package. The current development version of spatstat.sparse is here.

When you type library(spatstat) this will load the main spatstat library and the spatstat.data library, and will also import the spatstat.utils and spatstat.sparse libraries. Importing means that the spatstat.utils and spatstat.sparse functions can be used by spatstat but cannot be accessed by the user. To access these utility functions directly, you need to type library(spatstat.utils) and library(spatstat.sparse) respectively.

Extension packages

There are also extension packages which provide additional capabilities and must be loaded explicitly when you need them. Currently there are four extension packages:

. spatstat.local for local model-fitting,

. spatstat.Knet for analysing point patterns on a network of lines,

. spatstat.gui for interactive graphics (containing the functions iplot and istat that were previously part of spatstat),

. spatstat.sphere for analysing point patterns on a sphere (package is still in preparation).

Installation

Installing the official release

To install the official release of spatstat from CRAN, start R and type

install.packages('spatstat')

Installing the development version

The easiest way to install the development version of spatstat from github is through the remotes package. Start R and type

require(remotes)
install_github('spatstat/spatstat.utils')
install_github('spatstat/spatstat.data')
install_github('spatstat/spatstat')

If you don't have remotes installed you should first run

install.packages('remotes')

For Windows users: installing via remotes requires that RTools is installed and working. If this is not an option for you, you can also install the development version by downloading the zip file from appveyor (bottom of the page) and installing the package from the downloaded file (which will be much, much faster than the remotes method).

Bug reports

Users are encouraged to report bugs here. Go to issues in the menu above, and press new issue to start a new bug report, documentation correction or feature request.

Please do not post questions on the Issues page, because it's too clunky for correspondence.

Questions about spatstat

For questions about spatstat, first check the question-and-answer website stackoverflow. If your question is not listed, you can either post your question at stackoverflow, or email the authors.

Making your own changes

Feel free to fork spatstat, make changes to the code, and ask us to include them in the package by making a github pull request.

However, this repository is only a copy of the development code, so your pull request may not be implemented until the next official release.