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Developer oriented utility functions designed to be used as the building blocks of R packages that work with ArcGIS Location Services. It provides functionality for authorization, Esri JSON construction and parsing, as well as other utilities pertaining to geometry and Esri type conversions.

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Developer oriented utility functions designed to be used as the building blocks of R packages that work with ArcGIS Location Services. It provides functionality for authorization, Esri JSON construction and parsing, as well as other utilities pertaining to geometry and Esri type conversions. To support 'ArcGIS Pro' users, authorization can be done via 'arcgisbinding'. Installation instructions for 'arcgisbinding' can be found at <https://developers.arcgis.com/r-bridge/installation/>.

Maintainer
Josiah Parry
Latest release
3 Sep 2026
First release
11 Jan 2024

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Releases
10
Needs compilation
Yes
Needs R
>= 4.2
Config/rextendr/version
0.4.2
Config/roxygen2/version
8.1.0
Config/testthat/edition
3
Language
en
SystemRequirements
Cargo (Rust's package manager), rustc >= 1.67, xz
Collections (1) Method, Collections
  • arcgis, installed by the arcgis package
Subjects (1) Method, Subjects
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citation("arcgisutils")
APA
Parry, J., Bass, M., Pousson, E., Vernon, K., & Zomorrodi, R. (2026). arcgisutils: R-ArcGIS Bridge Utility Functions (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.arcgisutils
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APA
Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for arcgisutils version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040
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Over time

No change since 8 Sep 2026

As a list (12)
ChangedWorst statusOKNotesWarningsErrors
8 Sep 2026OK13000
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1 Aug 2026Note12100
30 Jul 2026OK13000
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15 May 2026Error12001
2 May 2026OK13000
10 Mar 2026Note11300

Since March 2026

Check results on CRAN

Total downloads in the last 30 days
1,729−3.7% down on the 30 days before, the worse directionIt is the sum of 3 channels: CRAN, r2u and autoCRAN.

CRAN rank

2,929 of 26,529

CRAN

1,670 downloads in the last 30 days

Rank
2,929 of 26,529
Change
−4.2% down on the 30 days before, the worse direction

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41 downloads in the last 30 days

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3,464 of 30,526
Change
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18 downloads in the last 30 days

Rank
2,575 of 29,212
Change
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Over time

Compare downloads

Needs
10
Dependent packages
6
Suggested by
0
Needs (10)
Installing it adds
25 packages, 26.6 MB of source
Of those, need compilation
20
Optional extras (8)
Dependent packages (6)
PackageTitleDownloads in 30 days
arcgislayersHarness ArcGIS Data Services1,636
arcpbfProcess ArcGIS Protocol Buffer FeatureCollections1,254
arcgisArcGIS Location Services Meta-Package729
arcgisgeocodeA Robust Interface to ArcGIS 'Geocoding Services'567
arcgisplacesSearch for POIs using ArcGIS 'Places Service'439
arcgisroutingAccess the ArcGIS Routing and Network Analysis Services208
Functions
338
Public exports
93
Lines of R code
7,003
Median complexity
1
Functions (338)
Size and composition

Lines by kind (14,045)

KindLinesShare
R code7,00350%
Tests8836%
Documentation2,71719%
Compiled code3,44225%

Lines by language

LanguageLinesShare
R7,64754%
Rust3,42024%
Rd2,71719%
JSON2172%
C220.2%
Markdown220.2%

Languages are counted from file extensions.

Files
162
R functions
205
Compiled functions
133
Object systems
S3: 10 methods, R6: 1 classes, S7: 6 classes
Deprecated functions
3
Complexity
Median
1
Mean
2.69
Highest
26
Median lines per function
10
About complexity

Cyclomatic complexity counts the independent paths through a function: 1 is a straight line, higher is harder to test. R functions only.

Call graph figures
R functions
205
Calls
341
Unconnected
24
Groups
2
Growth (10 releases)
Total lines by release
3,257 on 11 Jan 202414,045 on 3 Sep 2026
Release changes

The package could not be built for the coverage run.

Test cases
36
Lines of tests
883
Exports named in tests
23.7%
Test suite
Has tests
Yes
Test frameworks
testthat
Test cases
36
Snapshot tests
2
Test lines per line of code
0.13
Exports documented
98.9%
Arguments documented
99.5%
Return value documented
88.1%
Help pages with examples
93%
Examples run in checks
77.5%
Other documentation
README
Yes, 581 words
Release notes file
Yes
Help pages
43
Lines of documentation
2,717

R-ArcGIS / arcgisutils on github.com

Stars
21no change on 30 days ago
Forks
8
Open issues
9
Last commit
26 Oct 2026
Activity
Commits
352
Open pull requests
0
Tagged releases
4
Latest tagged release
v0.4.0, 1 Oct 2025
Issues closed in
88 days (median)
Pull requests closed in
0 days (median)
Pull requests merged
91%
Created
17 Oct 2023
Licence file reads as
Apache-2.0
Development practices (11)
KindFound
Continuous integrationGitHub Actions, R CMD check workflow
The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel
Docs sourceREADME.Rmd, pkgdown
GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-05
The repository has a site deploy workflow
pkgdown site last built 2026-08-05, before release 0.6.1 (2026-09-03)
CRAN release processcran-comments.md
For agents and modelsllms.txt
Lint, format, editorjarl, VS Code
Git structural.gitattributes

Method, repository practices

Across R-ArcGIS

Tools

ToolFirst seenFound
Claude Code20 Aug 2025Seen in the repositoryCLAUDE.mdNamed in .Rbuildignore.claudeCLAUDE.mdNamed in .gitignore.claude
  • Seen in the repository
  • Named in .Rbuildignore
  • Named in .gitignore

Across R-ArcGIS

R releases
  • On CRAN
  • Release
VersionReleasedR
0.6.1 current3 Sep 20264.6.1
0.6.010 Jul 20264.6.1
0.5.04 Mar 20264.5.2
0.4.018 Sep 20254.5.1
0.3.310 Apr 20254.4.3
0.3.127 Sep 20244.4.1
0.3.09 May 20244.4.0
0.2.023 Feb 20244.3.2
Earlier versions (2)
VersionReleasedR
0.1.117 Jan 20244.3.2
0.1.011 Jan 20244.3.2
Release notes (0.6.1)
  • Replaces deprecated functions.
  • Fixes a bug where sf objects were assumed to have geometry in the last column position.
  • Adds arcgis.req_headers option. If provided, the headers will be injected into all requested from arc_base_req() <https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/issues/94>
  • from_spatial_reference() gracefully handles NA and NULL <https://github.com/R-ArcGIS/arcgisutils/issues/95>
  • Fixes a bug where feature collections generated an invalid Object ID field for 0-row inputs
  • Fixes a duplicated joined query parameter in arc_group_users()