September 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Computational Methods fastfocal v0.1.3: Provides a fast moving-window (“focal”) and buffer-based extraction for raster data using the terra package. Automatically selects between a C++ backend and a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) backend depending on problem size. The FFT backend supports sum and mean. Other statistics are handled by terra . There are two vignettes: Benchmarking and Fast Multi-scale…