The R arcgis library is part of ESRI's R-ArcGIS Bridge toolbox that allows one to interact with ArcGIS Online services within an R environment. This enables one to load data hosted on ArcGIS Online into an sf object within your R environment. Create GIS data using sf in your R environment and then publishing that layer to your ArcGIS Online account. Update existing data you have hosted on ArcGIS Online. In this tutorial I will work through several workflows that will demonstrate how you can interact with ArcGIS Online services using the R arcgis library.

Prerequisite: Basic programming in R, knowledge of sf library, and having an ArcGIS Online account.