R Observatory: Metrics for RSAGA version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RSAGA

1.4.2Package record

SAGA Geoprocessing and Terrain Analysis

0packages depend

9.3Kdownloads / year

0.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander BrenningCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides access to geocomputing and terrain analysis functions of the geographical information system (GIS) 'SAGA' (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses) from within R by running the command line version of SAGA. This package furthermore provides several R functions for handling ASCII grids, including a flexible framework for applying local functions (including predict methods of fitted models) and focal functions to multiple grids. SAGA GIS is available under GPL-2 / LGPL-2 licences from https://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/.

Install

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

install.packages("RSAGA", 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("r-spatial/RSAGA")

Development version from r-spatial/RSAGA. 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-rsaga

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-RSAGA

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-RSAGA

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: 2.6 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
OK13 OK2026-05-01

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WARNING13 OK, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 55includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 14%5 run in a plain check · 30 never run
Exported functions with examples: 65%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to Terrain Analysis with RSAGA: Landslide Susceptibility Modeling

How these are measured

Downloads

9.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,398 · ~26/day · ~778/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72130 days

1.9K90 days

9.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128 r2u6 autocran1.9K conda_forge212 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-spatial/rsaga ↗Organization: r-spatial

27Stars

5Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

341Commits

8Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-2.0 · 341 commits · Last activity 2025-02-04

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-spatial/rsaga on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)tic

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RSAGA adds 29 packages (21 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5gstat plyr shapefiles

Imports (4)

magrittrstatsstringrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

gam knitr rmarkdown sf testthat tibble

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 (5)

Alexander Brenning

Author, Maintainer since 0.9-1 (2007)

Donovan Bangs

Author · added in 0.94-1

Marc Becker

Author · added in 1.0.0

Fabian Polakowski

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Patrick Schratz

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Releases (35)

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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
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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
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.2Latest
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2013-07-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rsaga.lib.prefix
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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2018-02-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
rsaga.default.modules.path, rsaga.default.path

added 4 exports
rsaga.get.modules.path, rsaga.intersect.polygons, rsaga.set.env, rsaga.union.polygons
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rsaga.slope.asp.curv, rsaga.topdown.processing
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pattern:.

added 82 exports
centervalue, create.variable.name, default.file.extension, focal.function, gapply, get.file.extension, grid.predict, grid.to.xyz, internal.pick.from.ascii.grid, local.function, match.arg.ext, multi.focal.function, multi.local.function, pick.from.ascii.grid, pick.from.ascii.grids, pick.from.points, pick.from.saga.grid, pick.from.shapefile, read.Rd.grid, read.ascii.grid, read.ascii.grid.header, read.sgrd, relative.position, relative.rank, resid.median, resid.minmedmax, resid.quantile, resid.quartiles, rsaga.add.grid.values.to.points, rsaga.aspect and 52 more
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03

Package metadata

First published: 2007-11-09
Total releases: 35 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 446 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.5 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RSAGA")

Format

Brenning, A., Bangs, D., Becker, M., Polakowski, F., & Schratz, P. (2025). RSAGA: SAGA Geoprocessing and Terrain Analysis (Version 1.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RSAGA

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RSAGA version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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