R Observatory: Metrics for fasterRaster version 8.4.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fasterRaster

8.4.1.2

Faster Raster and Spatial Vector Processing Using 'GRASS'

0packages depend

4.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam B. SmithFirst published 2024-12-176 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Processing of large-in-memory/large-on disk rasters and spatial vectors using 'GRASS' https://grass.osgeo.org/. Most functions in the 'terra' package are recreated. Processing of medium-sized and smaller spatial objects will nearly always be faster using 'terra' or 'sf', but for large-in-memory/large-on-disk objects, 'fasterRaster' may be faster. To use most of the functions, you must have the stand-alone version (not the 'OSGeoW4' installer version) of 'GRASS' 8.0 or higher.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("fasterRaster", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("adamlilith/fasterRaster")

Development version from adamlilith/fasterRaster. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-fasterraster

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-fasterRaster

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-fasterRaster

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,265 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,944 · ~13/day · ~385/mo

Releases R versions

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28530 days

1.2K90 days

4.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ adamlilith/fasterraster

68Stars

8Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

2,592Commits

3Contributors

rasterfragmentation-indicesfragmentationrasterizetopographyslopeaspectgrass-gis

2,592 commits · Last activity 2026-07-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 642026-07-07 · 68

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/adamlilith/fasterraster on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (11)

data.table DTgraphicsgrDevicesmethodsomnibus rgrass sf shiny terra (>= 1.7)utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Adam B. Smith

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Adam B. Smith

Maintainer, Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Smith

no longer listed · 8.4.0.3 to 8.4.1.2

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
8.4.1.2Latest
2026-04-18 · current release · diff ↗
8.4.1.1
2025-11-18 · diff ↗
8.4.1.0
2025-06-20 · diff ↗
8.4.0.7
2025-04-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
8.4.0.5
2025-02-25 · diff ↗
8.4.0.3
2024-12-17
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-17
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 139 KB / 7 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Smith, A. B. (2026). fasterRaster: Faster Raster and Spatial Vector Processing Using 'GRASS' (Version 8.4.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fasterRaster

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fasterRaster version 8.4.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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