R Observatory: Metrics for OSMscale version 0.5.23

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OSMscale

0.5.23Package record

Add a Scale Bar to 'OpenStreetMap' Plots

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.4Kdownloads / year

12.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Berry BoessenkoolCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functionality to handle and project lat-long coordinates, easily download background maps and add a correct scale bar to 'OpenStreetMap' plots in any map projection.

Install

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

install.packages("OSMscale", 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("brry/OSMscale")

Development version from brry/OSMscale. 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-osmscale

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-OSMscale

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-OSMscale

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: 7.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-06

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.23

READMEYes · 69 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.5.23Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 93%13 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 70%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,870 · ~12/day · ~369/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30030 days

77990 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on103 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

brry/osmscale ↗Account: brry

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

185Commits

1Commit identities

185 commits · Last activity 2025-09-30

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 193
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2016-07-20 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/brry/osmscale on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing OSMscale adds 34 packages (19 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

OpenStreetMap berryFunctions sf pbapply

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rdwd

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Berry Boessenkool

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.9 (2016)

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.23Latest
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2025-09-30 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.22
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2025-07-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.20
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2023-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
mapComp, pmap
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.5.1
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2017-04-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
maxEarthDist
0.4.1
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2017-01-19 · diff ↗
0.3.5
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2016-09-21 · diff ↗

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0.2.9
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2016-08-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-21
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 4.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 34 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("OSMscale")

Format

Boessenkool, B. (2025). OSMscale: Add a Scale Bar to 'OpenStreetMap' Plots (Version 0.5.23) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.OSMscale

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 OSMscale version 0.5.23 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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