Dear R users, I am pleased to announce that the fetchR package is now available on CRAN, which automatically calculates wind fetch lengths, for any location(s) around the world. Wind fetch (or just fetch) is an important calculation in many coastal and oceanographic applications that require a measure for wind and wave exposure. The fetchR package exports the `fetch` function that requires; a (projected) polygon shapefile representing the coastline and other obstructions to wind; and a points shapefile representing the location(s) at which the fetch is to be calculated. There are arguments that allow you to change the maximum distance and number of directions. Finally, there are plot and kml methods that allow you to visualise the exposure and export the vectors to a KML file, respectively. Refer to the vignette for a reproducible example (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fetchR/vignettes/introduction-to-fetchR.html). Also, check out the shiny application for this R package (http://windfetch.cer.auckland.ac.nz/). Refer to the 'help' tab to get started with a reproducible example. fetchR on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=fetchR fetchR on GitHub: https://github.com/blasee/fetchR bugs, suggestions: https://github.com/blasee/fetchR/issues Feedback, comments and suggestions are welcomed! All the best, Blake --- Blake Seers | PhD candidate University of Auckland Dept. of Statistics | Inst. of Marine Science Building 303 Room 361