modisfast

1.0.2

Fast and Efficient Access to MODIS Earth Observation Data

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3.7Kdownloads / year

0.1%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul TaconetFirst published 2024-07-143 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Programmatic interface to several NASA Earth Observation 'OPeNDAP' servers (Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol) (https://www.opendap.org/). Allows for easy downloads of MODIS subsets, as well as other Earth Observation datacubes, in a time-saving and efficient way : by sampling it at the very downloading phase (spatially, temporally and dimensionally).

Install

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

install.packages("modisfast", 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("ptaconet/modisfast")

Development version from ptaconet/modisfast. 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-modisfast

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-modisfast

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

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

# 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-modisfast

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 7.4 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.21

0.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 5,712 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 13%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,797 · ~10/day · ~306/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ptaconet/modisfast

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 2.10

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Paul Taconet

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Authors (1)

Paul Taconet

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Paul Taconet

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Funders (2)

French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, IRD

Funder

Nicolas Moiroux

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.2Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-14
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 4.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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