[FR] Engines for spatial regression?

[mikemahoney218]

Feature

A potential nice extension for {parsnip} would be to support spatial regression methods, which natively understand and take advantage of the spatial structure in models.

Spatial regression in R is broken across a number of packages -- some of the larger ones include:

• https://r-spatial.github.io/spatialreg/
• https://github.com/r-spatial/gstat/
• https://book.spatstat.org/

Part of the challenge here is that those three packages linked all rely upon completely different data formats and take different approaches to representing the spatial relationships between observations.

[EmilHvitfeldt]

Another contender with https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SpatialML/index.html