Package: slopes Title: Calculate Slopes of Roads, Rivers and Trajectories Version: 2.0.0 Authors@R: c( person("Robin", "Lovelace", email = "rob00x@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5679-6536")), person("Rosa", "Félix", email = "rosamfelix@tecnico.ulisboa.pt", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5642-6006")), person("Joey", "Talbot", email = "j.d.talbot@leeds.ac.uk", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6520-4560")), person("Gonçalo", "Matos", email = "goncaloafmatos@tecnico.ulisboa.pt", role = c("aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0001-3489-1732")), person("Dan", "Olner", role = c("rev"), comment = "Dan reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/420#issuecomment-857662657 "), person("Andy", "Teucher", role = c("rev"), comment = "Andy reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/420#issuecomment-858231647 ") ) Description: Calculates the slope (longitudinal gradient or steepness) of linear geographic features such as roads (for more details, see Ariza-López et al. (2019) ) and rivers (for more details, see Cohen et al. (2018) ). It can use local Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data or download DEM data via the 'ceramic' package. The package also provides functions to add elevation data to linestrings and visualize elevation profiles. License: GPL-3 URL: https://github.com/ropensci/slopes/, https://docs.ropensci.org/slopes/ BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/slopes/issues Encoding: UTF-8 LazyData: true Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE) Imports: sf, terra, methods, pbapply, geodist, colorspace Depends: R (>= 2.10) Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, ceramic, bookdown, covr, testthat, osmextract, stplanr, dplyr, tmap, leaflet, bench, rlang Config/Needs/website: generics VignetteBuilder: knitr Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0 Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev Repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-06-25 18:15:04 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ropensci/slopes RemoteRef: master RemoteSha: a50419a7198c9bfed27049c172e2b14ce0b5c7a9 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-06-25 19:57:26 UTC; root Author: Robin Lovelace [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: ), Rosa Félix [aut] (ORCID: ), Joey Talbot [aut] (ORCID: ), Gonçalo Matos [aut] (ORCID: ), Dan Olner [rev] (Dan reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/420#issuecomment-857662657), Andy Teucher [rev] (Andy reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/420#issuecomment-858231647) Maintainer: Robin Lovelace