Hi all,

For anyone interested in command-line GIS, and R for Spatial Data in particular, I'd like to flag a few up-coming events:

• Spatial Data Analysis with R, Friday 31st March, next week, in London: http://www.jumpingrivers.com/courses/9_spatial-data-analysis-with-r
  
• R for Transport Applications, Wednesday and Thursday 26th and 27th April in Leeds (deadline for early bird prices ends soon): http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/courses/cpd/r-for-transport-applications/

A couple of related links that may be of interest:

A free tutorial, Introduction to Visualising Spatial Data in R by myself and James Cheshire: https://github.com/Robinlovelace/Creating-maps-in-R

A vignette introducing the new sf package, a new paradigm for handling spatial data in R with close links to PostGIS: https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/sf/vignettes/sf1.html