lidR: Airborne Point Cloud Data Manipulation and Visualization for Forestry Applications

Airborne point cloud interface for data manipulation and visualization. Read/write 'las' and 'laz' files, computation of metrics in area based approach, point filtering, artificial point reduction, classification from geographic data, normalization, individual tree segmentation and other manipulations.

Version:	4.3.3
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0), methods
Imports:	classInt, data.table (≥ 1.12.0), glue, grDevices, lazyeval, Rcpp (≥ 1.0.3), rgl, rlas (≥ 1.8.2), sf, stats, stars, terra (≥ 1.5-17), tools, utils, parallelly
LinkingTo:	BH (≥ 1.72.0), Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Suggests:	EBImage, future, geometry, gstat, raster, RCSF, RMCC, rjson, mapview, mapedit, progress, sp, testthat (≥ 2.1.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published:	2026-09-15
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.lidR
Author:	Jean-Romain Roussel [aut, cre, cph], David Auty [aut, ctb] (Reviews the documentation), Florian De Boissieu [ctb] (Fixed bugs and improved catalog features), Andrew Sánchez Meador [ctb] (Implemented wing2015() for segment_snags()), Bourdon Jean-François [ctb] (Contributed to Roussel2020() for track_sensor()), Gatziolis Demetrios [ctb] (Implemented Gatziolis2019() for track_sensor()), Leon Steinmeier [ctb] (Contributed to parallelization management), Stanislaw Adaszewski [cph] (Author of the C++ concaveman code), Benoît St-Onge [cph] (Author of the 'chm_prep' function)
Maintainer:	Jean-Romain Roussel <info at r-lidar.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR/issues
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://github.com/r-lidar/lidR
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Citation:	lidR citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	lidR results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	lidR.html , lidR.pdf
Vignettes:	1. LAS formal class (source, R code) 2. LAScatalog formal class (source, R code) 3. LAScatalog processing engine (source, R code) 5. Create a function to process a LAScatalog (source, R code) 4. Speed-up the computations on a LAScatalog (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	lidR_4.3.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources:	lidR archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests:

crookR, dsmSearch, FuelDeep3D, lacunr, PiC, rcontroll

Linking:

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