geodiv calculates gradient surface metrics in R. These metrics are applied to continuous spatial data (i.e., rasters or matrices) and represent spatial heterogeneity.
You can install the released version of geodiv from CRAN with:
And the development version from GitHub with:
On Mac OS X, you may need to install the development tools here to get the package to install:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/
This is a basic example which shows you how to calculate several metrics over an entire image. geodiv may also be applied with moving windows over an entire image using the ‘texture_image’ function.