Dear all, RFmerge is an R package designed to merge gridded datasets with in situ observations using Random Forest as the core spatial prediction algorithm. The method incorporates spatial covariates such as topographic attributes and Euclidean distances, among others, to improve the accuracy and spatial consistency of the merged estimates.
In February 2023, the RFmerge package was removed from CRAN because we did not resolve several issues related to the retirement of rgdal and rgeos ( https://r-spatial.org/r/2022/04/12/evolution.html), which were used in RFmerge 0.1-6 together with the raster package. By July 2023, these issues were addressed, in time for a short technical course organized by SISSA (https://sissa.crc-sas.org/). Unfortunately, this updated version of the package (v0.2-0) was not submitted to CRAN at the time, due to time constraints affecting the development team. Now, a new version of RFmerge (v0.3-3) has been released on May 8, 2026, and is available on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=RFmerge. Key new features include: - Migration to the terra package, which supersedes raster. This represents a major change and results in a substantial improvement in computational performance. - Support for multi-core processing and distributed computing environments via the parallel package. - An updated vignette: > Zambrano-Bigiarini, M., Baez-Villanueva, O. M., Giraldo-Osorio, J. D., & McNamara, I. (2026). *Tutorial for merging satellite-based precipitation datasets with ground observations using RFmerge (>=0.3-0)*. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20061104. - A new graphical logo. - A new project website built with pkgdown: http://mzb.cl/RFmerge/. - The package DOI was updated in June 2024 from the Zotero-assigned identifier to the CRAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RFmerge. - A complete list of changes is available at: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RFmerge/news/news.html I hope you find this new version useful and enjoy it ! Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, PhD Associate Professor, Universidad de La Frontera Associate Researcher, (CR)2 FONDAP Center Phone: +56 45 259 2812 <+56+45+259+2812> e-mail: [email protected] [image: webpage] <https://hzambran.github.io/> [image: ORCID] <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9536-643X> [image: Github] <https://github.com/hzambran> [image: Linkedin] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/hzambran/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
