Package fasterRaster, available on CRAN for R, is a GIS powerhouse for large-in-memory/large-on-disk rasters. Using GRASS GIS as a backend, fasterRaster emulates nearly all of the functions available in terra with the same name and usually the same arguments. For moderately-sized rasters or smaller, terra will nearly always be faster. But when it’s not, there’s always fasterRaster! Functions exist for:
- Focal, zonal, multi-layer, distance, cropping, resampling, projecting, buffering, applying PCA, de-noising, merging, sampling, hydrology and topography, and much more!
- Creating the 19 BIOCLIM rasters, plus an extended set of BIOCLIMs
- Calculation of landscape fragmentation indices
- Identification of landscape geomorphons
- And much more!

Package enmSdmX, available on CRAN for R, is a fully-featured package for species distribution modeling and ecological niche modeling, with functions for:
- Bias correction
- Model tuning
- Biotic velocity
- Raster interpolation
- And more!

Package statisfactory, available on CRAN for R, contains a handful of useful statistical procedures, with functions for:
- Aligned rank transform (useful for using rank data in ANOVAs)
- 2-dimensional histograms
- Histograms with overlapping bins
- Making all possible formulae from a set of predictors
- And more!

Package omnibus, available on CRAN for R, contains handfuls of handy helper functions!
- Display the corners of a large data frame or matrix (top left, top right, etc.;
corner()
) - Conversion factors for unit conversions (e.g., feet to meters;
convertUnits()
) - Find values not in a vector (
%notin%
) - Recursive unlisting of lists (
unlistRecursive()
) - Handling equalities with
NA
s (%<=na%
,%>=na%
, etc.) - Easily add leading zeros or other characters to a string (
prefix()
) - And more!