fasterize

1.1.0

Fast Polygon to Raster Conversion

5packages depend

41.9Kdownloads / year

96.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerFirst published 2018-03-226 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a drop-in replacement for rasterize() from the 'raster' package that takes polygon vector or data frame objects, and is much faster. There is support for the main options provided by the rasterize() function, including setting the field used and background value, and options for aggregating multi-layer rasters. Uses the scan line algorithm attributed to Wylie et al. (1967) doi:10.1145/1465611.1465619.

Install

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

install.packages("fasterize", 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("ecohealthalliance/fasterize")

Development version from ecohealthalliance/fasterize. 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-fasterize

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-fasterize

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-25
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OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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NOTE2026-03-28
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

41.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,794 · ~115/day · ~3.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ecohealthalliance/fasterize

186Stars

15Forks

28Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

123Commits

9Contributors

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123 commits · Last activity 2025-03-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ecohealthalliance/fasterize on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp raster wk

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (6)

testthat microbenchmark knitr rmarkdown spelling geos

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

rasterDT siland tabularaster distanceto ursa

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Sumner

Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (1)

Noam Ross

Author

Contributors (3)

Michael Sumner

Maintainer, Contributor

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 1.0.4

Antoine Stevens

Contributor · added in 1.0.4

EcoHealth Alliance

Funders (1)

USAID PREDICT

Funder · added in 1.0.2

Package Timeline

6 releases. 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
1.1.0Latest
2024-10-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.5
2023-11-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.4
2022-12-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.3
2020-07-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.2
2020-03-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
2018-03-22
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-22
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 714 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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