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rWind: Download, Edit and Include Wind and Sea Currents Data in Ecological and Evolutionary Analysis

Downloads and processes surface wind data from the Global Forecast System <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/global-forecast> and sea-current data from Ocean Surface Current Analyses Real-time (OSCAR). Converts flow speed and direction into spatial rasters and directed movement costs and conductances for connectivity and least-cost path analyses.

Version: 1.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: raster (≥ 2.5-8), terra, gdistance, Matrix, lubridate
Suggests: testthat, rmarkdown, knitr, curl, shape
Published: 2026-10-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rWind
Author: Javier Fernández-López [aut, cre], Klaus Schliep [aut], Yurena Arjona [aut]
Maintainer: Javier Fernández-López <jflopez.bio at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/jabiologo/rWind/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/jabiologo/rWind, https://allthiswasfield.blogspot.com/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: rWind citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rWind results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rWind.html , rWind.pdf
Vignettes: Anisotropic shortest paths across the Strait of Gibraltar (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: rWind_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rWind_1.2.0.zip, r-release: rWind_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: rWind_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rWind_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rWind_1.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rWind_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rWind_1.2.0.tgz
Old sources: rWind archive

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They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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