R Observatory: Metrics for CopernicusDEM version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CopernicusDEM

1.0.5Package record

Copernicus Digital Elevation Models

0packages dependsuggested by 2

4.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lampros MouselimisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Copernicus Digital Elevation Model datasets (DEM) of 90 and 30 meters resolution using the 'awscli' command line tool. The Copernicus (DEM) is included in the Registry of Open Data on 'AWS (Amazon Web Services)' and represents the surface of the Earth including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation.

Changes in 1.0.5

I replaced the "tmap", "leaflet" and "leafgl" in the vignette with the "mapview" R package (the user has to install the latest "mapview" version from the Github repository)
I included the "terra" R package in the Suggests section of the DESCRIPTION file.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("CopernicusDEM", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mlampros/CopernicusDEM")

Development version from mlampros/CopernicusDEM. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-copernicusdem

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-CopernicusDEM

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-CopernicusDEM

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.5

READMEYes · 223 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.5Citation fileYes · computed when R runs it

Help pages: 4 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (1)

Copernicus_Digital_Elevation_Models (an example use case) HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,859 · ~13/day · ~401/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42430 days

99690 days

4.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on204 r2u22 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mlampros/copernicusdem ↗Account: mlampros

17Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

17Commits

2Commit identities

copernicusdigital-elevation-modelrawscliv2awscli

17 commits · Last activity 2024-12-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-03-22 · 172026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mlampros/copernicusdem on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowtic

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Issue templates

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-12-09

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CopernicusDEM adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

glue sfutilsdoParallel foreach

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rmarkdown knitr data.table fitbitViz mapview terra

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

fitbitViz IceSat2R

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Lampros Mouselimis

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-15
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: inst/COPYRIGHTS.pdf
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 4.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("CopernicusDEM")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CopernicusDEM version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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