About Roger Bivand
Born 1951. Roger Bivand is a geographer.
Roger Simon Bivand (born 5 April 1951) is a British geographer, economist and professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. He specialises in open source software for spatial analysis, and played a major role in developing functions for spatial data in the R statistical programming language, including the R packages sp, rgdal, maptools and rgrass7. His book Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, coauthored with Edzer Pebesma and Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, is considered "the authoritative resource on R's spatial capabilities".
Education and career
Bivand was born in Bristol on 5 April 1951. He studied geography at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1975, He went on to receive a habilitation from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1982.
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