R Observatory: Metrics for Rglottography version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rglottography

1.2.0Package record

Programmatic Access to Glottography Speaker Area Polygons

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

16.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter RanacherCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides programmatic access to Glottography, an online repository of geospatial speaker-area polygons for the world's languages. The package allows users to list available datasets, download and install them, and load speaker-area polygons as standard spatial 'sf' objects in R. Data are sourced from either the Glottography organization on GitHub https://github.com/Glottography or the Glottography community on Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/glottography. Based on Ranacher et al. (2026) doi:10.5334/johd.459.

Changes in 1.2.0

Improvements

Added set_cache_dir() to allow users to change the default cache location for downloads.
Minor documentation improvements and bug fixes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("Rglottography", 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("Glottography/Rglottography")

Development version from Glottography/Rglottography. 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-rglottography

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-Rglottography

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-Rglottography

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-03-25

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,563 · ~7/day · ~221/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30930 days

82690 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on48 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

glottography/rglottography ↗Organization: Glottography

4Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

58Commits

1Commit identities

58 commits · Last activity 2026-03-25 · +33.3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 64
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-02-27 · 12026-10-21 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/glottography/rglottography on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rglottography adds 27 packages (20 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

cli httr2 jsonlite sf tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat mockery knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 dplyr rnaturalearth

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Peter Ranacher

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.0Latest
record
2026-03-24 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-24
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 608 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("Rglottography")

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

It points to 10.5334/johd.459.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 Rglottography version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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