R Bindings for Calling the 'Earth Engine' API
Overview
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.
- 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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Dependencies
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.
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Previously maintained by Cesar Aybar (1.0.8 to 1.1.7).
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- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- 1.1.8Latest
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- 1.1.72023-09-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ee_clean_credentialsadded 3 exports
ee_as_rast, ee_check_gcloud, ee_clean_user_credentials - RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- 1.1.52022-09-13 · diff ↗
- 1.1.4
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- 1.1.3
- 1.1.22021-12-15 · diff ↗
- 1.1.02021-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
ee_get, ee_utils_gif_annotate, ee_utils_gif_creator, ee_utils_gif_saveadded 1 export
ee_utils_cog_metadata - RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- 1.0.92021-04-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ee_utils_search_displayadded 2 exports
R6Map, ee_utils_dataset_display - 1.0.82021-01-27
- RR 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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