ForestTools

1.0.3

Tools for Analyzing Remote Sensing Forest Data

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6.3Kdownloads / year

76.4%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew PlowrightFirst published 2017-01-2113 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for analyzing remote sensing forest data, including functions for detecting treetops from canopy models, outlining tree crowns, and calculating textural metrics.

Install

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

install.packages("ForestTools", 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("andrew-plowright/ForestTools")

Development version from andrew-plowright/ForestTools. 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-foresttools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-ForestTools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.07

76.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,480 · ~17/day · ~525/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ andrew-plowright/foresttools

93Stars

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139Commits

6Contributors

139 commits · Last activity 2025-12-24 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (5)

terra sfMatriximager GLCMTextures

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none

Suggests (3)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Plowright

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Andrew Plowright

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Jean-Romain Roussel

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.3Latest
2025-02-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
2024-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.1
2023-10-02 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2023-08-09 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-08-09
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-07-18
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.5
2021-09-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.4
2021-04-18 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-04-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-28
requires archived package 'radiomics'

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0.2.1
2020-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
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0.1.5
2017-09-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.4
2017-04-18 · diff ↗
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2017-03-20 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2017-03-06 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2017-01-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-21
Total releases: 13 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 1.7 MB / 8 files
Download size: 3.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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