Reading, writing, manipulating, analyzing and modeling of spatial data. This package has been superseded by the "terra" package <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=terra>.

R-based access to a large set of data variables relevant to forest ecology in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Layers
    are in raster format at 100m resolution in the BC Albers projection, hosted at the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR)
    with <doi:10.20383/101.0283>. The collection includes: elevation; biogeoclimatic zone; wildfire; cutblocks; forest attributes from
    Hansen et al. (2013) <doi:10.1139/cjfr-2013-0401> and Beaudoin et al. (2017) <doi:10.1139/cjfr-2017-0184>; and rasterized
    Forest Insect and Disease Survey (FIDS) maps for a number of insect pest species, all covering the period 2001-2018.
    Users supply a polygon or point location in the province of BC, and 'rasterbc' will download the overlapping raster tiles
    hosted at FRDR, merging them as needed and returning the result in R as a 'SpatRaster' object. Metadata associated with these
    layers, and code for downloading them from their original sources can be found in the 'github' repository
    <https://github.com/deankoch/rasterbc_src>.

Provides methods for calculating diversity indices on numerical
    matrices, based on information theory, following Rocchini, Marcantonio
    and Ricotta (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.07.039> and Rocchini et al.
    (2021) <doi:10.1101/2021.01.23.427872>.

Fast alternatives to several relatively slow 'raster' package
  functions. For large rasters, the functions run from 5 to
  approximately 100 times faster than the 'raster' package functions
  they replace. The 'fasterize' package, on which one function in this
  package depends, includes an implementation of the scan line
  algorithm attributed to Wylie et al. (1967)
  <doi:10.1145/1465611.1465619>.

This is a wrapper function for image(), which makes reasonable
    raster plots with nice axis and other useful features.

Provides R functions to selectively rasterize components
             of 'grid' output.