Uses a combination of raytracing and multiple hill shading methods to produce 2D and 3D data visualizations and maps. Includes water detection and layering functions, programmable color palette generation, several built-in textures for hill shading, 2D and 3D plotting options, a built-in path tracer, 'Wavefront' OBJ file export, and the ability to save 3D visualizations to a 3D printable format.
| Version: |
0.41.2 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1) |
| Imports: |
doParallel, foreach, Rcpp, progress, raster, scales, png, jpeg, rgl (≥ 1.3.16), grDevices, grid, utils, methods, terrainmeshr, rayimage (≥ 0.24.1), rayvertex (≥ 0.13.1), rayrender (≥ 0.40.0), magrittr |
| LinkingTo: |
Rcpp, progress, RcppArmadillo |
| Suggests: |
reshape2, viridis, av, magick, ggplot2 (≥ 4.0.0), sf, isoband, car (≥ 3.1-1), geosphere, gifski, ambient, terra, elevatr, gridExtra, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), osmdata, raybevel (≥
0.2.1), ragg, skymodelr |
| Published: |
2026-07-20 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.rayshader |
| Author: |
Tyler Morgan-Wall 
[aut, cph, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Tyler Morgan-Wall <tylermw at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader/issues |
| License: |
GPL-3 |
| URL: |
https://www.rayshader.com,
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| In views: |
Spatial |
| CRAN checks: |
rayshader results [issues need fixing before 2026-07-20] |