terra
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terra is an R package for spatial analysis. There are tutorials at rspatial.org/terra.
stackoverflow is the best place to ask questions if you get stuck. Make sure to include a simple reproducible example. But if you think you have found a bug, please file an issue.
terra replaces the raster package. The interfaces of terra and raster are similar, but terra is simpler, faster and can do more.
Installation
terra is available from CRAN, so you can use install.packages("terra") to get the current released version.
The easiest way to use the development version on Windows or MacOS, is to install it from the R-universe, like this:
install.packages('terra', repos='https://rspatial.r-universe.dev')
Please note that, on MacOS, the development version does not support the HDF4 file format, which is used for some NASA satellite data products.
From source-code
To install from source-code, first install the packages that terra depends on:
install.packages(c("raster", "Rcpp"))
And then continue based on the OS you are using.
Windows
On Windows, you need to first install Rtools to get a C++ compiler that R can use.
Then, in R, install the package.
Sys.setenv("R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS" = "true")
remotes::install_github("rspatial/terra")
MacOS
On OSX, first install gdal and proj with homebrew
brew install pkg-config
brew install gdal
Followed by
Sys.setenv("R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS" = "true")
remotes::install_github("rspatial/terra")
This should work on Catalina and Big Sur
Linux
The GDAL (>= 2.2.0), GEOS (>= 3.3.0) and PROJ (>= 6.0.0) libraries are required
To install these on Ubuntu version 18.04 (Bionic) you can do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev
And now, in R, install the package
remotes::install_github("rspatial/terra")
See the sf instructions for installation on other linux systems --- and for possible updates/improvements on the above instructions. But note that terra depends on on more recent versions of GDAL and PROJ libraries