• Spatial Objects
• Points
• Rasters
• Workflow

sp = SpatialPoints(coords)
str(sp)

## Formal class 'SpatialPoints' [package "sp"] with 3 slots
##   ..@ coords     : num [1:100, 1:2] -1.163 0.3609 -0.4343 -0.6074 -0.0481 ...
##   .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
##   .. .. ..$ : NULL
##   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "x" "y"
##   ..@ bbox       : num [1:2, 1:2] -2.51 -2.42 2.29 2.87
##   .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
##   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "x" "y"
##   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "min" "max"
##   ..@ proj4string:Formal class 'CRS' [package "sp"] with 1 slot
##   .. .. ..@ projargs: chr NA

• Elevation (SRTM 90m resolution raster)
• World Climate (Tmin, Tmax, Precip, BioClim rasters)
• Countries from CIA factsheet (vector!)
• Global Administrative boundaries (vector!)

• Download a global Maximum Temperature dataset
• Crop it to a country you download
• Calculate the overall range for each variable
• Calculate the focal median with an 11x11 window
• Create a transect across the region and extract the temperature data.