Add usage examples for R

[j08lue]

Along with Python, R is used by many scientists in our wider user community (at EIS and MAAP) to analyze Earth data.

To help these users make use of VEDA resources, our documentation should offer some of the same essential instructions as it has for Python, e.g. for loading data from the VEDA data store.

Acceptance criteria

• Described (here or in a document) a few examples of what some of our users do with R
• Added a few instructional examples for R to our documentation

[jsignell]

Are there any known R-users that we can talk to?

[j08lue]

Perhaps @ashiklom can point us to someone? Or @dfelikson?

[kathrynberger]

Previously, I was only an R user, before moving to Python 7 years ago - so would have to review a bit before I was able to help (as I've done used it sparingly in the past). There are some great docs, resources, and examples in R here developed by some of the leaders in the R community, if that helps. cc' @j08lue @jsignell

[jsignell]

Oh nice! Yeah those docs look great!

[wildintellect]

I recently co-authored a notebook on how to use STAC and HLS COGs from R. Still looking for a permanent home, perhaps Openscapes @freitagb , or STAC community?
https://github.com/MicheleTobias/workshop-stac

I also have a user support ticket showing how to use MAAP STAC with rstac for finding and reading COGs internal to MAAP. We have a ticket to get it into the MAAP documentation, and could reuse for VEDA, just the STAC url and collection would differ.