Robin Lovelace

There's an R package that takes OSM data and calculates gradients in the surrounding area that can provide ideas/inspiration for this: https://github.com/ITSLeeds/slopes The main computational tasks are quite generally applicable...

In terms of Rust/R integration it's early days but I just ran the following commands from the extendr/libR-sys repo and it works fine: ``` libR-sys on  master via 𝗥...

Good news: it seems the approach is fast. Faster than R's very mature C++ bindings according to a small benchmark here: https://github.com/extendr/rextendr/issues/11#issuecomment-755119346

Reproducible example on a machine that has R and Rust installed. Not 100% sure what's going on here, imagine @dabreegster you'll have a better idea if you can reproduce it......

And with regard to the question of which elevation data source to use... SRTM has been superseded I think, some countries (and cities) have higher res data but for the...

> Did you hit any licensing or API limit issues with caching data from them? Not yet, I have an unpaid mapbox API key that is quite generous and not...

But to be fair haven't been bulk downloading data in a way that I have been doing for OSM/STATS19 data. I'm sure lack of DEM data will not be a...

Thanks for the comment @yihui. Shall I modify the PR accordingly? > CSS is definitely not a small topic :) Seems so. I searched in vain for good links to...

Update, I've had a first go at fixing this documentation issue (see PR above). See attached for reproducible experiments showing that the suggested steps, which omit mention of `@import` do...

Sounds like a plan. Was thinking it may be a plan to split-out the SI components in a sim package but that's for another day and another project. Looking forward...