R Observatory: Metrics for GD version 10.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GD

10.9Package record

Geographical Detectors for Assessing Spatial Factors

0packages depend

31.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LyuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Geographical detectors for measuring spatial stratified heterogeneity, as described in Jinfeng Wang (2010) doi:10.1080/13658810802443457 and Jinfeng Wang (2016) doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.052. Includes the optimal discretization of continuous data, four primary functions of geographical detectors, comparison of size effects of spatial unit and the visualizations of results. To use the package and to refer the descriptions of the package, methods and case datasets, please cite Yongze Song (2020) doi:10.1080/15481603.2020.1760434. The model has been applied in factor exploration of road performance and multi-scale spatial segmentation for network data, as described in Yongze Song (2018) doi:10.3390/rs10111696 and Yongze Song (2020) doi:10.1109/TITS.2020.3001193, respectively.

Changes in 10.9

Recommended to install gdverse version 1.6 or higher (#5).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("GD", 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("ausgis/GD")

Development version from ausgis/GD. 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-gd

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-GD

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-GD

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 10.9

READMEYes · 113 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 10.9Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Optimal Parameters-based Geographical Detectors (OPGD) Model for Spatial Heterogeneity Analysis and Factor Exploration

How these are measured

Downloads

31.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,136 · ~86/day · ~2.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.9K90 days

31.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on96 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ausgis/gd ↗Organization: ausgis

20Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

99Commits

1Commit identities

geographical-detectorrspatial-stratified-heterogeneity

99 commits · Last activity 2026-02-27 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 10.10, ahead of CRAN 10.9 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-22 · 142026-09-09 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ausgis/gd on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-27

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GD adds 8 packages (7 with compiled code, 9.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gplots 4.6 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, ape 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

BAMMtoolsgraphicsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

gdverse knitr rmarkdown spEDM

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer · added in 10.9

Yongze Song

Author, Copyright holder · added in 10.5

Maintainer since 10.5 (2024), previously Yongze Song (1.0 to 10.3)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Wenbo Lv

no longer listed · 10.5 to 10.8

Releases (17)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-03
Total releases: 17 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 763 KB / 9 files
Download size: 2.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("GD")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1080/15481603.2020.1760434, 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.052, 10.1080/13658810802443457.

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 GD version 10.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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