raster is an R package for geographic data analysis and modeling.
raster is an R package for geographic data analysis and modeling.
It accomplishes reading, writing, manipulating, analyzing and modeling of gridded spatial data. The package implements basic and high-level functions and processing of very large files is supported.
Other resources
- Introduction to the 'raster' package - An introudction into the 'raster' package giving an overview on its classes and main functions.
- Writing functions for large raster files - Develop "memory-safe" functions that can process raster files that are too large to be loaded into memory.
- Rasterfile format - Detailed description of the rasterfile format.