R Observatory: Metrics for RgoogleMaps version 1.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RgoogleMaps

1.5.3

Overlays on Static Maps

4packages dependsuggested by 3

38.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Markus LoecherCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Serves two purposes: (i) Provide a comfortable R interface to query the Google server for static maps, and (ii) Use the map as a background image to overlay plots within R. This requires proper coordinate scaling.

Install

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

install.packages("RgoogleMaps", 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("markusloecher/rgooglemaps")

Development version from markusloecher/rgooglemaps. 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-rgooglemaps

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-RgoogleMaps

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-RgoogleMaps

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 39
Examples that run: 93%28 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 74%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 5%

How these are measured

Downloads

38.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,316 · ~106/day · ~3.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1K30 days

7.1K90 days

38.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on654 r2u252 autocran4.9K conda_forge416 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

markusloecher/rgooglemaps ↗Account: markusloecher

11Stars

2Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

35Commits

5Commit identities

35 commits · Last activity 2025-10-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2024-12-31 · 102026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/markusloecher/rgooglemaps on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-24

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RgoogleMaps adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 24 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: png 24 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (6)

graphicsstatsutilsgrDevicesmethodspng

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

PBSmapping RColorBrewer leaflet jpeg RCurl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

3indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 3

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PopGenReport mapsapi loa RapidPolygonLookup

Suggests, most downloaded first

raptr MSG bReeze

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Markus Loecher

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2009)

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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Sense Networks

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.1.9.13

Law "

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.2.0.5

Berlin School of Economics

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.2.0.5

"Markus Loecher

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.2.0.5

Releases (39)

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-05-07
Total releases: 39 / 17 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 246 KB / 4 files
Download size: 370 KB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data Web Technologies and Services

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RgoogleMaps")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RgoogleMaps version 1.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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