This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-06-09. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'rlas'

Details below reflect version 4.3.2, its last release before removal.

lidR

4.3.2

Airborne LiDAR Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

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70Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jean-Romain Roussel57 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) interface for data manipulation and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' files, computation of metrics in area based approach, point filtering, artificial point reduction, classification from geographic data, normalization, individual tree segmentation and other manipulations.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/lidR/lidR_4.3.2.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "lidR_4.3.2.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (4.3.2) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lidar/lidR")

Development version from r-lidar/lidR. 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-lidr

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-lidR

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

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.35

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-04-25
7 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-03
8 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 565 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 86%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 41%
References docs: 23%

Downloads

70K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,761 · ~192/day · ~5.8K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (15)

classInt data.table gluegrDeviceslazyeval Rcpp rgl rlas sfstatsstars terratoolsutilsparallelly

LinkingTo (3)

BH Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (15)

EBImage future geometry gstat raster RCSF RMCC rjson mapview mapedit progress sp testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Jean-Romain Roussel

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Jean-Romain Roussel

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

David Auty

Author, Contributor

Contributors (1)

David Auty

Author, Contributor

Jean-Romain Roussel

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Benoît St-Onge

Other (6)

Florian De Boissieu

Contributor

Andrew Sánchez Meador

Contributor

Bourdon Jean-François

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Gatziolis Demetrios

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Leon Steinmeier

Contributor · added in 3.1.3

Stanislaw Adaszewski

Contributor · added in 3.2.0

Package Timeline

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

archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-06-09
requires archived package 'rlas'
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.3.2
2026-04-21 · diff ↗
4.3.1
2026-04-07 · diff ↗
4.3.0
2026-04-02 · diff ↗
4.2.3
2026-01-08 · diff ↗
4.2.2
2025-11-06 · diff ↗
4.2.1
2025-06-02 · diff ↗
4.2.0
2025-05-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
4.1.2
2024-07-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.1.1
2024-03-05 · diff ↗
4.1.0
2024-02-01 · diff ↗
4.0.4
2023-09-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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1.5.1
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-06-15
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-06-10
depends on archived package 'rlas'
1.5.0
2018-05-14 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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1.0.2
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

Total releases: 57
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 2.4 MB
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