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## Notes on coding style

1. R has different coding paradigms, most importantly base R, [tidyverse](https://www.tidyverse.org/) and [data.table](https://rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table/). In this course we use base R, but give some tips to resources for the tidyverse here and there.

2. The typical assignment notation in R is `<-`. However, in these materials you will see `=` used for assignment. Both are completely fine to use and these materials use `=` just for preference.

3. Piping: if you are familiar with the tidyverse, you might have seen the use of the `%>%` operator to concatenate functions. Since R 4.1.0 R introduced a native pipe operator `|>` and that is what we use in this workshop. If you are curious about how the native pipe works and differences with the `magrittr` pipe, see [here](https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/understanding-the-r-pipe/) and [here](https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/04/base-vs-magrittr-pipe/).

## Acknowledgements

This course is based on the [FOSS4G 2022 workshop "Getting started with R and R-spatial"](https://bakaniko.github.io/foss4g2022-getting-started-rspatial/) by Nicolas Roelandt and Jakub Nowosad.

The [artwork](https://allisonhorst.com/allison-horst) in these materials is by Allison Horst ([\@allison_horst](https://twitter.com/allison_horst)).

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# automatically create a bib database for R packages
knitr::write_bib(c('knitr', 'quarto'), 'packages-index.bib')
```