Google Earth Engine with rgee

The rgee package provides an R interface to Google Earth Engine (GEE), allowing spatial data analysis on GEE’s cloud platform using familiar R syntax and the pipe operator. It supports the full Earth Engine class hierarchy—images, image collections, features, feature collections, and geometries—along with data import/export, visualization, and GEE asset management.

What’s covered#

• Mission and installation – setup for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Docker with ee_install()
• Basic classes – ee$Number, ee$String, ee$Date, ee$Array, ee$Dictionary, ee$List
• Geometric types – ee$Geometry$Point, Polygon, MultiLineString, MultiGeometry, and sf equivalents
• Geometric operations – $buffer(), $intersection(), $union(), $difference(), $symmetricdifference()
• Data catalog – ee_utils_dataset_display() for searching Earth Engine datasets
• Visualization – Map$addLayer(), Map$addLegend(), ee_print() for metadata display
• Image and ImageCollection I/O – ee_as_raster(), ee_as_stars(), ee_image_to_drive(), raster_as_ee()
• GEE Asset Manager – ee_manage_create(), ee_manage_delete(), ee_manage_copy(), and related functions
• Custom animations – ee_utils_gif_creator(), ee_utils_gif_annotate(), ee_utils_gif_save()