R Observatory: Metrics for GTFSwizard version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GTFSwizard

1.2.1Package record

Creating, Exploring, and Manipulating GTFS Files

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

83.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nelson de Oliveira Quesado FilhoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Creating, exploring, analyzing, and manipulating General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) files, which represent public transportation schedules and geographic data. The package allows users to filter data by routes, trips, stops, service dates, and time, generate spatial visualizations, and perform detailed analyses of transit networks, including headway, dwell times, route frequencies, service span, scheduled vehicle-hours, and trip duration. Methods follow common public transport planning and operation concepts described in Ceder (2007, ISBN:978-0-7506-6166-6), Vuchic (2005, ISBN:978-0-471-63265-8), Vuchic (2007, ISBN:978-0-471-75823-5), Cascetta (2009) doi:10.1007/978-0-387-75857-2, and Gentile and Noekel (2016) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25082-3.

Changes in 1.2.1

Refreshed the README figures and package website from the current plotting code, and added a reproducible figure-generation script for maintainers.
Improved the year-faceted service calendar for dense feeds and retained the supplied object name in the explore_gtfs() dashboard.
Organized the package website by workflow, added task-based function reference sections, and added vignettes for getting started, service analysis, filtering and editing, and the interactive dashboard.
Standardized public method values with underscores: by_trip, by_route, by_hour, by_stop, and by_shape. Legacy dotted values remain accepted.
Standardized public argument names including file_path, gtfs_x, gtfs_y, max_dwelltime, and min_length, with compatibility aliases for previous names.

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Improved tidy_raptor() validation, transfer handling, date selection, and output column names.
Added planning indicators to explore_gtfs(), including scheduled headway, commercial speed, service span, vehicle-hours, peak fleet, stop spacing, and route connectivity.
Calendar and service-pattern summaries now represent dates with no active service explicitly: trip counts are 0, and the service pattern is labeled "No service".

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("GTFSwizard", 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("OPATP/GTFSwizard")

Development version from OPATP/GTFSwizard. 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-gtfswizard

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-GTFSwizard

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-GTFSwizard

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: 6.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK6 OK2026-06-23

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 44 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%42 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 27%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,923 · ~4/day · ~108/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28230 days

92390 days

1.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on120 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

opatp/gtfswizard ↗Organization: OPATP

8Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

479Commits

4Commit identities

gtfstransit

479 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · +14.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.2, ahead of CRAN 1.2.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 227
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 56

Stars over time

2025-08-22 · 32026-10-21 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/opatp/gtfswizard on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-19

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GTFSwizard adds 43 packages (27 with compiled code, 54 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

sf tidyr dplyr ggplot2 gtfsio rlang tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

data.table gtfstools hms knitr leaflet plotly rmarkdown rstudioapi shiny testthat tidytransit

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 (3)

Nelson de Oliveira Quesado Filho

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.0

Caio Gustavo Coelho Guimarães

Author · added in 1.2.0

Francisco Moraes de Oliveira Neto

Author · added in 1.2.0

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Caio G. C. Guimarães

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Nelson de O. Quesado Filho

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.2.1Latest
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2026-08-21 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-06-22
1.2.0
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first seen 2026-06-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
create_gtfs, plot_routeduration, plot_serviceheatmap, plot_servicespan, plot_servicesupply
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-09-09
requires archived package 'hrbrthemes'
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0
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2025-03-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
edit_dwelltime, edit_speed, get_1stdeparture, get_corridor, get_hubs, latlon2epsg, plot_corridor, plot_hubs, set_dwelltime, tidy_raptor
1.0.0
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2024-11-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-11
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.2 MB / 2 files
Download size: 2.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("GTFSwizard")

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

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.gtfswizard.

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 GTFSwizard version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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