Package: hero Type: Package Title: Spatio-Temporal (Hero) Sandwich Smoother Version: 0.6 Author: Joshua French Maintainer: Joshua French Description: An implementation of the sandwich smoother proposed in Fast Bivariate Penalized Splines by Xiao et al. (2012) . A hero is a specific type of sandwich. Dictionary.com (2018) describes a hero as: a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes. Also implements the spatio-temporal sandwich smoother of French and Kokoszka (2021) . Depends: R (>= 2.10) Imports: Matrix, splines, optimx, pbapply, sf, sp, fields Suggests: autoimage, devtools, fda, igraph, testthat, future.apply, Rmpi License: GPL (>= 2) Encoding: UTF-8 LazyData: true RoxygenNote: 7.2.3 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-06-04 07:56:51 UTC; root Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev Repository: https://jfrench.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2023-07-15 22:32:24 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/hero RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 6608b2b4953706ed19d447b554d0e288ef6e33f4