R

R is a standalone open source language and environment that is useful for performing statistical analyses and graphically visualizing data. Users typically make use of this language within a command-line interface or a GUI-based software such as RStudio. Within either environment, users can work with geospatial data by installing additional packages such as SP, RGDAL, SpatioTemporal, and so on. However, we can also access a number of these powerful statistical tools through the processing toolbox.

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Similar to all the previous algorithm providers, we need to make sure that R is properly configured. Although QGIS gets installed with the required R scripts, in order to run them, we also need to download and install R from http://www.r-project.org/.

The integration of R within QGIS offers access to some highly specialized spatial analysis tools that are focused on home range analysis and point pattern analysis. To explore some of the R algorithms available through the toolbox, we will use...