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'WhiteboxTools' R Frontend

v2.4.3 · Oct 19, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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An R frontend for the 'WhiteboxTools' library, which is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform developed by Prof. John Lindsay at the University of Guelph's Geomorphometry and Hydrogeomatics Research Group. 'WhiteboxTools' can be used to perform common geographical information systems (GIS) analysis operations, such as cost-distance analysis, distance buffering, and raster reclassification. Remote sensing and image processing tasks include image enhancement (e.g. panchromatic sharpening, contrast adjustments), image mosaicing, numerous filtering operations, simple classification (k-means), and common image transformations. 'WhiteboxTools' also contains advanced tooling for spatial hydrological analysis (e.g. flow-accumulation, watershed delineation, stream network analysis, sink removal), terrain analysis (e.g. common terrain indices such as slope, curvatures, wetness index, hillshading; hypsometric analysis; multi-scale topographic position analysis), and LiDAR data processing. Suggested citation: Lindsay (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2016.07.003>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies CSHShydRology RPhosFate SAiVE transfR ursa whitebox

Version History

15 tracked
new 2.4.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.4.3 ← 2.4.2 diff Oct 19, 2025
updated 2.4.2 ← 2.4.0 diff Oct 13, 2025
updated 2.4.0 ← 2.3.4 diff May 26, 2024
updated 2.3.4 ← 2.3.1 diff Nov 17, 2023
updated 2.3.1 ← 2.3.0 diff Jun 6, 2023
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updated 2.2.0 ← 2.1.5 diff Oct 26, 2022
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updated 2.1.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Mar 20, 2022
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updated 2.0.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Sep 9, 2021
new 0.1.0 Feb 6, 2019