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fastbioclim

Scalable and Flexible Derivation of Custom-Time Bioclimatic and Environmental Summary Variables

v0.4.1 · Mar 10, 2026 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Provides an efficient tool for creating custom-time bioclimatic and derived environmental summary variables from user-supplied raster data for user-defined timeframes. The package overcomes computational bottlenecks by automatically switching between an in-memory framework using the 'terra' package to maximize speed for smaller datasets, and an on-disk tiling framework for rasters that exceed available RAM, leveraging 'exactextractr' and 'Rfast' to process data in chunks. The core functions, derive_bioclim() and derive_statistics(), offer a unified interface with flexibility for custom time periods beyond standard quarters and the use of fixed temporal indices, facilitating the creation of temporally-matched environmental variables for ecological and biogeographical modeling. Visit the package website <https://gepinillab.github.io/fastbioclim/> to find tutorials in English and Spanish.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies exactextractr future.apply glue progressr purrr qs2 Rfast sf terra fastbioclim

Version History

new 0.4.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.1 diff Nov 25, 2025
new 0.2.1 Sep 7, 2025