Introductory materials on spatial models
What are spatial data and spatial models? (link)
Applied Spatial Statistics: Slides by Yuri M. Zhukov, Harvard University (link)
Using spatial models with R-Cran
Technical prerequisite: R-Cran software (actual version, open source)
Basics of R: An Introduction to R by W. N. Venables and D. M. Smithand from the R Core Team (link)
An Introduction to Spatial Econometrics in R: Primer by Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri, University of Illinois (link)