fastbioclim

0.4.2

Scalable and Flexible Derivation of Custom-Time Bioclimatic and Environmental Summary Variables

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4.6Kdownloads / year

12.5%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Gonzalo E. Pinilla-BuitragoFirst published 2025-09-084 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an efficient tool for creating custom-time bioclimatic and derived environmental summary variables from user-supplied raster data for user-defined timeframes. The package overcomes computational bottlenecks by automatically switching between an in-memory framework using the 'terra' package to maximize speed for smaller datasets, and an on-disk tiling framework for rasters that exceed available RAM, leveraging 'exactextractr' and 'Rfast' to process data in chunks. The core functions, derive_bioclim() and derive_statistics(), offer a unified interface with flexibility for custom time periods beyond standard quarters and the use of fixed temporal indices, facilitating the creation of temporally-matched environmental variables for ecological and biogeographical modeling. Visit the package website https://gepinillab.github.io/fastbioclim/ to find tutorials in English and Spanish.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("fastbioclim", 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("gepinillab/fastbioclim")

Development version from gepinillab/fastbioclim. 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-fastbioclim

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

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-fastbioclim

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.16

12.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-05-02
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ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 598 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 17%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

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Rank #6,812 · ~13/day · ~381/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ gepinillab/fastbioclim

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127 commits · Last activity 2026-05-08 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gepinillab/fastbioclim on 2026-07-19.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (9)

exactextractr future.apply glue progressr purrr qs2 Rfast sf terra

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none

Suggests (3)

mockery testthat withr

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Gonzalo E. Pinilla-Buitrago

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Authors (2)

Gonzalo E. Pinilla-Buitrago

Author, Maintainer

Luis Osorio-Olvera

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Package Timeline

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0.4.2Latest
2026-05-08 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.1
2026-03-10 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2025-11-26 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2025-09-08
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-08
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 70 KB
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