R Observatory: Metrics for raster version 3.6-32

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

raster

3.6-32Package record

Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling

226packages dependsuggested by 102

1.7Mdownloads / year

6.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert J. HijmansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Reading, writing, manipulating, analyzing and modeling of spatial data. This package has been superseded by the "terra" package https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=terra.

Install

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

install.packages("raster", 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("rspatial/raster")

Development version from rspatial/raster. 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-raster

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-raster

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-raster

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 15.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.6-32

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 189includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%167 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 3%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #348 · ~4.8K/day · ~145.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

103.8K30 days

272.1K90 days

1.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on22.2K r2u83 autocran37.9K conda_forge623 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rspatial/raster ↗Organization: rspatial

162Stars

53Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

682Commits

28Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 682 commits · Last activity 2025-03-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-11 · 1602026-07-07 · 162

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rspatial/raster on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-03-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing raster adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 7.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, terra 1.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0sp

Imports (3)

Rcppmethodsterra

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (11)

ncdf4 igraphtcltkparallelrasterVisMASSsf tinytest gstat fields exactextractr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

226direct

223indirect

Depends 36 · Imports 190

Suggested by 102

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 178 more dependents and 102 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (31)

Robert J. Hijmans

Maintainer since 1.0.0-1 (2010), Author

Dan Baston

Contributor · added in 3.3-6

Andrew Bevan

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Roger Bivand

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Lorenzo Busetto

Contributor · added in 2.8-4

Mort Canty

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Joe Cheng

Contributor · added in 2.4-15

Ben Fasoli

Contributor · added in 3.4-5

David Forrest

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

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Aniruddha Ghosh

Contributor · added in 2.6-7

Duncan Golicher

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Josh Gray

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Jonathan A. Greenberg

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Paul Hiemstra

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Kassel Hingee

Contributor · added in 3.0-12

Alex Ilich

Contributor · added in 3.5-9

Charles Karney

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Matteo Mattiuzzi

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Steven Mosher

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Babak Naimi

Contributor · added in 3.4-10

Jakub Nowosad

Contributor · added in 2.8-4

Edzer Pebesma

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Oscar Perpinan Lamigueiro

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Etienne B. Racine

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Barry Rowlingson

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Ashton Shortridge

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Michael Sumner

Contributor · added in 2.1-66

Bill Venables

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Rafael Wueest

Contributor · added in 2.7-15

Jacob van Etten

Contributor

Institute for Mathematics Applied Geosciences

Copyright holder · added in 2.7-15

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-01-17
Total releases: 133 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 562 KB

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Hijmans, R. J., Institute for Mathematics Applied Geosciences, Baston, D., Bevan, A., Bivand, R., Busetto, L., Canty, M., Cheng, J., Fasoli, B., Forrest, D., Ghosh, A., Golicher, D., Gray, J., Greenberg, J. A., Hiemstra, P., Hingee, K., Ilich, A., Karney, C., Mattiuzzi, M., Mosher, S., Naimi, B., Nowosad, J., Pebesma, E., Perpinan Lamigueiro, O., Racine, E. B., Rowlingson, B., Shortridge, A., Sumner, M., Venables, B., Wueest, R., & van Etten, J. (2025). raster: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling (Version 3.6-32) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.raster

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for raster version 3.6-32 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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