[GIS] Seeking tutorials, books, papers, blogs, etc to handle spatial data in R

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Does anyone know some good tutorials, books, papers, blogs, etc to handle spatial data in R?

I know that there are some packages like rgdal and maptools but I haven't actually found useful tutorials to get in touch with the basic functions (read, plot, change symbology, join data, etc.) and/or to get a broader overview what are the actual capabilities of R for spatial analysis and manipulation of Spatial data.

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There's quite a few resources for learning 'spatial' R online:

• spatial-analyst.net

• A really solid blog post by Frank Davenport, with notes on some basic spatial data manipulation in R

• R Spatial Tips (Internet Archive link, original site seems to be gone)

• Barry Rowlingson's site containing some great examples and a cheatsheet

• I'd strongly recommend Analysing spatial point patterns in 'R' by Prof. Adrian Baddeley at the CSIRO in Australia. It covers the spatstat module in depth and I think it's a great resource for cluster analysis.

• Applied Spatial Data Analysis in R (Bivand, Roger S., Pebesma, Edzer J., Gómez-Rubio, Virgilio) and Spatial Statistics and Modeling (Gaetan, Carlo, Guyon, Xavier) are also both great books.

• Virgilio Gómez Rubio's (he is the author of the famous/superuseful ASDAR book, mentioned in other answers) website provides materials to his tutorials from useR! conferences - slides, data and code are available.

• Apart from ADAR, there is now new book 'An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping' by Brundson & Comber with code available for download.

• CSDE (University of Washington) course on GIS has some spatial R materials, focusing on ESDA, GWR, spatial regression

• Maps with R I (II, III) series of blog posts offer a lot of extensively commented code that you can learn from.

• UC Davis Soil Resource Laboratory has a nice collection of tips and examples of spatial R

• Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez has a nice materials on 'Spatial data in R: Using R as a GIS'.

• A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping by T. Hengl

• Comprehensive Tutorial for Spatio-Temporal R Package (Bergen et al., 2013)

• ggmap: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2 (Kahle and Wickham)

• D.G Rossiter (lecture notes)

• Spatial.ly

A few nice tutorials, including some with a focus on interactivity (often listed as a weakness of doing GIS with R)

• Spatial data in R: Using R as a GIS: A tutorial to perform basic operations with spatial data in R, such as importing and exporting data (both vectorial and raster), plotting, analysing and making maps. by Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez
• Using RStudio as an interactive GIS with Leaflet by Kyle Walker, Texas Christian University
• Working with PostGIS from R by Duncan Golicher
• Geospatial Data Processing and Analysis in R by Andy Lyons

I also made a quick easy and holistic tutorial you folks can check out here https://github.com/mattjbayly/MapsProj. All you need is the R text script and all other material is downloaded remotely from R.

My tutorial covered GIS data imports/exports, basic manipulation of vector & raster data, some of basic plotting and a brief overview of projections. Estimated time to complete: 60mins