R Observatory: Metrics for lidR version 4.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lidR

4.3.3Package record

Airborne Point Cloud Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

8packages dependsuggested by 6

50.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

10/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jean-Romain RousselCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Airborne point cloud interface for data manipulation and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' files, computation of metrics in area based approach, point filtering, artificial point reduction, classification from geographic data, normalization, individual tree segmentation and other manipulations.

Changes in 4.3.3

Reupload

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lidR", 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("r-lidar/lidR")

Development version from r-lidar/lidR. 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-lidr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-lidR

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-lidR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

3NOTE10OK

Check messages

NOTEcompiled coder-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

File ‘lidR/libs/lidR.so’:
  Found non-API calls to R: ‘LEVELS’, ‘R_curErrorBuf’, ‘SETLENGTH’,
    ‘SET_GROWABLE_BIT’, ‘SET_TRUELENGTH’, ‘TRUELENGTH’, ‘XTRUELENGTH’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

File 'lidR/libs/x64/lidR.dll':
  Found non-API calls to R: 'LEVELS', 'R_curErrorBuf', 'SETLENGTH',
    'SET_GROWABLE_BIT', 'SET_TRUELENGTH', 'TRUELENGTH', 'XTRUELENGTH'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 17.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTENow
NOTE7 OK, 5 NOTE2026-04-25
ERROR8 OK, 3 NOTE, 3 ERROR2026-04-03
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.3.3

READMEYes · 595 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 4.3.3Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 92includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%66 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 11 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 23%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

50.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,063 · ~137/day · ~4.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.7K30 days

4.2K90 days

50.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u4 autocran10.3K conda_forge148 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lidar/lidr ↗Organization: r-lidar

713Stars

141Forks

13Open issues

0Open PRs

40Releases

3,063Commits

22Commit identities

point-cloudlidarlaslazralsforestryremote-sensing

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 3,063 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21 · +0.4% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.3.3-9000, ahead of CRAN 4.3.3 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 117 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 71%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-09-16 · 7102026-10-01 · 713

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lidar/lidr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2017-09-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-09-04
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lidR adds 47 packages (31 with compiled code, 67 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (15)

classInt data.table gluegrDeviceslazyeval Rcpp rgl rlas sfstatsstars terratoolsutilsparallelly

LinkingTo (3)

BH Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (15)

EBImage future geometry gstat raster RCSF RMCC rjson mapview mapedit progress sp testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

0indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 7 · LinkingTo 2

Suggested by 6

Show all 14 packagesHide all 14 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tReeTraits FORTLS lidaRtRee spanner vostokR CrownScorchTLS crownsegmentr CspStandSegmentation

Suggests, most downloaded first

dsmSearch lacunr rcontroll PiC FuelDeep3D crookR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Jean-Romain Roussel

David Auty

Author, Contributor

Reviews the documentation

Florian De Boissieu

Contributor

Fixed bugs and improved catalog features

Gatziolis Demetrios

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Implemented Gatziolis2019() for track_sensor()

Bourdon Jean-François

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Contributed to Roussel2020() for track_sensor()

Leon Steinmeier

Contributor · added in 3.1.3

Contributed to parallelization management

Andrew Sánchez Meador

Contributor

Implemented wing2015() for segment_snags()

Stanislaw Adaszewski

Copyright holder · added in 3.2.0

Author of the C++ concaveman code

Benoît St-Onge

Copyright holder · added in 4.1.0

Author of the 'chm_prep' function

Releases (58)

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-09-16
4.3.3Latest
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2026-09-15 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-06-09
requires archived package 'rlas'
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.3.2
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2026-04-21 · diff ↗
4.3.1
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2026-04-07 · diff ↗
4.3.0
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2026-04-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
catalog_split_clusters, lspikefree, ptd, spikefree
4.2.3
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2026-01-08 · diff ↗
4.2.2
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2025-11-06 · diff ↗
4.2.1
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2025-06-02 · diff ↗
4.2.0
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2025-05-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 44 exports
crs<-, area, crs, hexbin_metrics, is.empty, lasadddata, lasaddextrabytes, lasaddextrabytes_manual, lascheck, lasclip, lasclipCircle, lasclipPolygon, lasclipRectangle, lasdetectshape, lasfilter, lasfilterdecimate, lasfilterduplicates, lasfilterfirst, lasfilterfirstlast, lasfilterfirstofmany, lasfilterground, lasfilterlast, lasfilternth, lasfiltersingle, lasfiltersurfacepoints, lasflightline, lasground, lasmergespatial, lasnormalize, laspulse and 14 more

added 17 exports
add_circle3d, barycenter_per_voxel, connected_components, fit_circle, height_above_ground, highest_attribute_per_voxel, knn, knn_distance, knnx, lowest_attribute_per_voxel, readALS, readALScatalog, readTLS, readTLScatalog, remove_ground, remove_noise, remove_water
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
4.1.2
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2024-07-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.1.1
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2024-03-05 · diff ↗
4.1.0
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2024-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
crs<-, area, crs, pitfill_stonge2008

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4.0.4
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2023-09-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
4.0.3
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2023-03-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_lasnir
4.0.2
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2022-12-15 · diff ↗
4.0.1
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2022-05-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
las_is_compressed, las_size
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
4.0.0
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2022-02-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
area, catalog_makechunks, find_localmaxima, lastransform, mcwatershed

added 43 exports
projection<-, st_crs<-, catalog_map, crown_metrics, engine_apply, engine_chunks, engine_crop, engine_merge, engine_write, evlr, header, hexagon_metrics, locate_trees, mcc, ncol.LAS, nrow.LAScatalog, payload, phb, pixel_metrics, plugin_decimate, plugin_dsm, plugin_dtm, plugin_gnd, plugin_itd, plugin_its, plugin_nintensity, plugin_outliers, plugin_shape, plugin_snag, plugin_track and 13 more
3.2.3
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2021-11-13 · diff ↗
3.2.2
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2021-10-20 · diff ↗
3.2.1
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2021-09-29 · diff ↗
3.2.0
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2021-09-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
opt_restart<-, catalog_boundaries, classify_poi, concaveman, interpret_waveform, plot_metrics, point_eigenvalues, random_per_voxel
3.1.4
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2021-06-21 · diff ↗
3.1.3
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2021-05-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.1.2
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2021-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lowest
3.1.1
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2021-01-27 · diff ↗
3.1.0
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2021-01-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
opt_cores<-, opt_cores

added 21 exports
index<-, sensor<-, classify_noise, count_not_quantized, index, is.quantized, ivf, las_quantize, las_update, quantize, readALSLAS, readALSLAScatalog, readDAPLAS, readDAPLAScatalog, readTLSLAS, readTLSLAScatalog, readUAVLAS, readUAVLAScatalog, sensor, sor, storable_coordinate_range
3.0.4
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2020-10-10 · diff ↗
3.0.3
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2020-08-03 · diff ↗
3.0.2
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2020-07-05 · diff ↗
3.0.1
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗
3.0.0
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2020-06-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
grid_hexametrics, grid_metrics3d, lasmetrics, wkt

added 69 exports
opt_independent_files<-, opt_merge<-, Gatziolis2019, LASBRIGDE, LASBUILDING, LASGROUND, LASHIGHVEGETATION, LASKEYPOINT, LASLOWPOINT, LASLOWVEGETATION, LASMEDIUMVEGETATION, LASNOISE, LASNONCLASSIFIED, LASRAIL, LASROADSURFACE, LASTRANSMISSIONTOWER, LASUNCLASSIFIED, LASWATER, LASWIRECONDUCTOR, LASWIREGUARD, Roussel2020, add_attribute, add_lasattribute, add_lasattribute_manual, add_lasrgb, catalog_makechunks, classify_ground, clip_circle, clip_polygon, clip_rectangle and 39 more
2.2.5
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2020-05-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.2.4
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2020-04-23 · diff ↗
2.2.3
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2020-03-02 · diff ↗
2.2.2
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2020-01-28 · diff ↗
2.2.1
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2020-01-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
catalog_sapply
2.2.0
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2020-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
add_flightlines3d, cloud_metrics, hexbin_metrics, lasrangecorrection, point_metrics, sensor_tracking, voxel_metrics
2.1.4
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2019-10-15 · diff ↗
2.1.3
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2019-09-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
lasreoffset, lasrescale
2.1.2
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2019-08-08 · diff ↗
2.1.1
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2019-08-06 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2019-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 21 exports
wkt<-, .stdshapemetrics, catalog_select, density, get_lidr_threads, is, is.algorithm, is.indexed, is.overlapping, is.parallelised, lasdetectshape, npoints, projection, readLAScatalog, readLASheader, set_lidr_threads, shp_hplane, shp_line, shp_plane, stdshapemetrics, wkt
2.0.3
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2019-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.2
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2019-03-03 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2019-02-02 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2019-01-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 35 exports
buffer<-, by_file<-, cores<-, progress<-, stop_early<-, tiling_size<-, vrt<-, as.lasmetrics, buffer, by_file, catalog_options, catalog_queries, catalog_reset, catalog_reshape, catalog_select, cores, grid_catalog, grid_tincanopy, lasclassify, lascolor, lasground_pmf, lasroi, lassnags_wing, lastrees_dalponte, lastrees_li, lastrees_li2, lastrees_silva, lastrees_watershed, lidr_options, lidr_reset and 5 more

added 56 exports
epsg<-, opt_chunk_alignment<-, opt_chunk_buffer<-, opt_chunk_size<-, opt_cores<-, opt_filter<-, opt_laz_compression<-, opt_output_files<-, opt_progress<-, opt_select<-, opt_stop_early<-, opt_wall_to_wall<-, LASheader, add_dtm3d, add_treetops3d, catalog_intersect, csf, dalponte2016, dsmtin, epsg, highest, homogenize, is.empty, knnidw, kriging, lascheck, lasfilterduplicates, lasmergespatial, lasremoveextrabytes, lastransform and 26 more
1.6.1
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2018-08-22 · diff ↗
1.6.0
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2018-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
stop_early<-, catalog_retile, stop_early, tree_hulls
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-06-15
1.5.1
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2018-06-15 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-06-10
depends on archived package 'rlas'
1.5.0
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2018-05-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
cloud_metrics, lasarea, lasdecimate

added 21 exports
buffer<-, by_file<-, cores<-, progress<-, tiling_size<-, vrt<-, buffer, by_file, cores, grid_catalog, lasadddata, lasaddextrabytes, lasaddextrabytes_manual, lasfilterdecimate, lasfiltersurfacepoints, lassmooth, lastrees_li2, lasunsmooth, progress, tiling_size, vrt
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.4.2
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2018-04-20 · diff ↗
1.4.1
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2018-01-31 · diff ↗
1.4.0
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2018-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
lasground_pmf, lassnags, lassnags_wing, lastrees_dalponte, lastrees_li, lastrees_silva, lastrees_watershed, lasunnormalize, tree_detection, util_makeZhangParam
1.3.1
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2017-09-20 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2017-09-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
as.SpatialPixelsDataFrame, as.SpatialPointsDataFrame, catalog_index, extent

added 5 exports
area, as.spatial, catalog_options, catalog_reset, catalog_reshape
1.2.1
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2017-06-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
.stdtreemetrics, lidr_options, lidr_reset, rumple_index, stdtreemetrics, tree_metrics
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.0
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2017-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
grid_hexametrics, grid_tincanopy, lasground
1.1.0
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2017-02-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
lassummary, lasterrain

added 3 exports
lasmetrics, lastrees, pastel.colors
1.0.2
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2016-12-31
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-31
Total releases: 58 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.5 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for lidR version 4.3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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