distance-to

The distanceto package is designed to quickly sample distances from points features to other vector layers. Normally the approach for calculating distance to (something) involves generating distance surfaces using raster based approaches eg. raster::distance or gdal_proximity and subsequently point sampling these surfaces. Since raster based approaches are a costly method that frequently leads to memory issues or long and slow run times with high resolution data or large study sites, we have opted to compute these distances using vector based approaches. As a helper, there's a decidedly low-res raster based approach for visually inspecting your region's distance surface. But the workhorse is distance_to.

Details

The distanceto package provides two functions:

• distance_to

• distance_raster

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/robitalec/distance-to

• https://robitalec.github.io/distance-to/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/robitalec/distance-to/issues

Author

Maintainer: Alec L. Robitaille robit.alec@gmail.com (ORCID)