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title: 'dbSpatial: Spatial Data Operations for Database-Backed Geometries'
version: 0.1.1
abstract: Provides database-backed spatial geometry classes and methods for working
  with vector spatial data in 'DuckDB'. The package supports loading, converting,
  querying, joining, and measuring spatial geometries through familiar 'sf'-style
  interfaces while keeping geometry columns lazy inside the database. It integrates
  with 'dbProject' to preserve database paths, live connections, and spatial table
  metadata across interactive sessions. The package follows the Simple Features framework
  described by Pebesma (2018) <https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-009> and uses DuckDB's
  spatial extension <https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/spatial/overview.html>.
authors:
- family-names: C. Ruiz
  given-names: Edward
  email: ecr7407@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-5387
- family-names: George Chen
  given-names: Jiaji
  email: jiajic@bu.edu
- family-names: Dries
  given-names: Ruben
  email: rubendries@gmail.com
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/dbverse-org/dbspatial-r
commit: 8df49a388b07dbe955cd187b5d91e356f4f400c3
url: https://dbverse-org.github.io/dbspatial-r/
date-released: '2026-05-27'
contact:
- family-names: C. Ruiz
  given-names: Edward
  email: ecr7407@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-5387