R Observatory: Metrics for GNRS version 0.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GNRS

0.3.4Package record

Access the 'Geographic Name Resolution Service'

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

80.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian MaitnerCRAN page ↗

Provides tools for interacting with the 'geographic name resolution service' ('GNRS') API https://github.com/ojalaquellueva/gnrs and associated functionality. The 'GNRS' is a batch application for resolving & standardizing political division names against standard name in the geonames database http://www.geonames.org/. The 'GNRS' resolves political division names at three levels: country, state/province and county/parish. Resolution is performed in a series of steps, beginning with direct matching to standard names, followed by direct matching to alternate names in different languages, followed by direct matching to standard codes (such as ISO and FIPS codes). If direct matching fails, the 'GNRS' attempts to match to standard and then alternate names using fuzzy matching, but does not perform fuzzing matching of political division codes. The 'GNRS' works down the political division hierarchy, stopping at the current level if all matches fail. In other words, if a country cannot be matched, the 'GNRS' does not attempt to match state or county.

Install

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

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

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

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-gnrs

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-GNRS

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-GNRS

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: 1.6 min · r-release-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 0.3.4

READMEYes · 78 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 0%12 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

GNRS R package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,782 · ~9/day · ~264/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37030 days

84790 days

3.2K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GNRS adds 10 packages (8 with compiled code, 3.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (3)

RCurl jsonlite httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat devtools vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (2)

Brian Maitner

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Brad Boyle

Author

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.4Latest
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2021-10-13 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2021-10-08 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-10-05
0.3.2
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2021-10-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GNRS_data_dictionary
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-08-17
repeated policy violations On Internet access, many times and with repeated warnings
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-08-09
0.3.1
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2021-08-09 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-07-26
policy violation On Internet access
0.3.0
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2021-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
GNRS_acknowledgments, GNRS_citations, GNRS_metadata, GNRS_sources
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
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2021-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
GNRS_get_counties, GNRS_get_countries, GNRS_get_states

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0.1.1
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2021-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GNRS_version
0.1.0
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2020-04-28
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-28
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 0.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GNRS")

Format

Maitner, B., & Boyle, B. (2021). GNRS: Access the 'Geographic Name Resolution Service' (Version 0.3.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GNRS

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GNRS version 0.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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