R Statistics
r is a statistics utility commonly used in the soil statistics. R is typically extended with a series of libraries, like GDAL and grassgis. Due to the amount of plugins required, some with a difficult installation procedure and potential high use of resources, the use of virtualisation, such as Docker, is common in soil data statistics.
Soil Mapping spring school
R is used to generate SoilGrids from the global Soil Profile database WoSIS.
At intervals ISRIC organises a spring school on soil mapping using R in case you’re interested in this topic.
Accessing SQL data from R.
Since many soil observation data is stored in relational databases, but processing in R requires a flat data view, it is relevant to have reproducable conventions to access sql data in R. David Rositter described an approach to load soil profile data into R from sqlite in 2017. For PostGreSQL a similar approach should be possible using RPostres.