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R Bindings for Calling the 'Earth Engine' API

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Overview

About

Earth Engine https://earthengine.google.com/ client library for R. All of the 'Earth Engine' API classes, modules, and functions are made available. Additional functions implemented include importing (exporting) of Earth Engine spatial objects, extraction of time series, interactive map display, assets management interface, and metadata display. See https://r-spatial.github.io/rgee/ for further details.

Changes in 1.1.8
  • Switched to @MatthieuStigler as package maintainer.
  • Fix issue #380: ee_Initialize() fails because of deprecated argument?, pull issue submitted by @MatthieuStigler
  • Fix issue #392: ee_check_python(): Error in strsplit(a, "[.-]"): non-character argument, pull issue submitted by @MatthieuStigler
  • Fix issue #378: ee_Initialize() does not show correct error message, pull issue submitted by @MatthieuStigler
  • Fix minor documentation issues.
  • Merge pull request #372 from NONONOexe/master
  • Merge pull request #364 from MarShaikh/master
  • Added tests using testthat
  • Merge pull request #365 from ambarja/master
  • Create update_dataset.yaml

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Install

Health

CRAN checks
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Slowest check: 3.8 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
  • OK12 OK2026-04-25
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  • NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10
Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.1.8
README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
63 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
0%53 never run
Exported functions with examples
88%
Documented parameters
99%
Return-value docs
92%
Help pages citing references
0%

Downloads

24K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #3,042 · ~66/day · ~2K/mo
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Repository

776Stars
159Forks
62Open issues
2Open PRs
15Releases
1,456Commits
22Commit identities
earth-enginegoogleearthenginegoogle-earth-enginerspatial-dataspatial-analysisearthengine
1,456 commits · Last activity 2026-10-12 · -0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.8.9002, ahead of CRAN 1.1.8 (checked 2026-10-11)
Responsiveness
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PRs merged (all time)
89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
37
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
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11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

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Governance and community (3)
Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates
Docs source (3)
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GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-12

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cran-comments.md
Research and citation (1)
CITATION.cff
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RStudio project
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rgee adds 65 packages (38 with compiled code, 52 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)
R >= 3.3.0
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
5direct
0indirect
Imports 5
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People & History

People (18)
Author, Maintainer since 1.1.8 (2025) · added in 1.1.8
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Reviewer
Appel reviewed the package for JOSS, see https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2272/
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Gena reviewed the package for JOSS, see https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2272/
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Hollister reviewed the package for JOSS, see https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2272/

Previously maintained by Cesar Aybar (1.0.8 to 1.1.7).

Releases (9)

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  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 1.1.8Latest
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    2025-10-15 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 1.1.7
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    2023-09-27 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    ee_clean_credentials
    added 3 exports
    ee_as_rast, ee_check_gcloud, ee_clean_user_credentials
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 1.1.5
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    2022-09-13 · diff ↗
  • 1.1.4
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    2022-07-16 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    ee_Authenticate
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 1.1.3
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    2022-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    ee_check_task_status, ee_utils_sak_copy, ee_utils_sak_validate
  • 1.1.2
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    2021-12-15 · diff ↗
  • 1.1.0
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    2021-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 4 exports
    ee_get, ee_utils_gif_annotate, ee_utils_gif_creator, ee_utils_gif_save
    added 1 export
    ee_utils_cog_metadata
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 1.0.9
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    2021-04-24 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    ee_utils_search_display
    added 2 exports
    R6Map, ee_utils_dataset_display
  • 1.0.8
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    2021-01-27
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published
2021-01-27
Total releases
9 / 5 yrs
License
Apache License (>= 2.0)
Minimum R
≥ 3.3.0
Download size
4.5 MB
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citation("rgee")
Stigler, M., Adauto, M., Allaire, J., Appel, M., Appelhans, T., Aybar, C., Barja, A., Bautista, L., Bengtsson, H., Carrasco, G., Donchyts, G., Hollister, J., Ooms, J., Qiusheng, W., Roy, S., Tang, Y., Ushey, K., & Yali, R. (2025). rgee: R Bindings for Calling the 'Earth Engine' API (Version 1.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rgee

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rgee version 1.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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