R Observatory: Metrics for Rsagacmd version 0.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rsagacmd

0.4.3Package record

Linking R with the Open-Source 'SAGA-GIS' Software

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

79.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steven PawleyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides an R scripting interface to the open-source 'SAGA-GIS' (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses Geographical Information System) software. 'Rsagacmd' dynamically generates R functions for every 'SAGA-GIS' geoprocessing tool based on the user's currently installed 'SAGA-GIS' version. These functions are contained within an S3 object and are accessed as a named list of libraries and tools. This structure facilitates an easier scripting experience by organizing the large number of 'SAGA-GIS' geoprocessing tools (>700) by their respective library. Interactive scripting can fully take advantage of code autocompletion tools (e.g. in 'RStudio'), allowing for each tools syntax to be quickly recognized. Furthermore, the most common types of spatial data (via the 'terra', 'sp', and 'sf' packages) along with non-spatial data are automatically passed from R to the 'SAGA-GIS' command line tool for geoprocessing operations, and the results are loaded as the appropriate R object. Outputs from individual 'SAGA-GIS' tools can also be chained using pipes from the 'magrittr' and 'dplyr' packages to combine complex geoprocessing operations together in a single statement. 'SAGA-GIS' is available under a GPLv2 / LGPLv2 licence from https://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/ including Windows x86/x64 and macOS binaries. SAGA-GIS is also included in Debian/Ubuntu default software repositories. Rsagacmd has currently been tested on 'SAGA-GIS' versions from 2.3.1 to 9.5.1 on Windows, Linux and macOS.

Install

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

install.packages("Rsagacmd", 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("stevenpawley/Rsagacmd")

Development version from stevenpawley/Rsagacmd. 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-rsagacmd

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-Rsagacmd

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-Rsagacmd

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-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-09-07
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 0.4.3

READMEYes · 1,067 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 43 (24 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 27%4 run in a plain check · 11 never run
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,777 · ~16/day · ~473/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51530 days

1.4K90 days

5.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u9 autocran75 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

stevenpawley/rsagacmd ↗Account: stevenpawley

34Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

383Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 383 commits · Last activity 2025-05-21 · Default branch at 0.4.4, ahead of CRAN 0.4.3 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stevenpawley/rsagacmd on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-05-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

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

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rsagacmd adds 38 packages (26 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, stars 3.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (12)

generics sf terra starstoolsutilsforeignstringr rlang tibble processx rvest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

dplyr testthat covr

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)

Steven Pawley

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2019)

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.3Latest
record
2024-09-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.2
record
2023-10-16 · diff ↗
0.4.1
record
2023-06-21 · diff ↗
0.4.0
record
2023-05-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.0
record
2022-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
saga_search

added 4 exports
convert_sagaext_r, read_srtm, saga_docs, search_saga
0.1.2
record
2021-12-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
extract_tool, summarize_tool_params, tidy
0.1.1
record
2021-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
%>%
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
record
2021-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
saga_execute, saga_version, show_raster_formats, show_vector_formats
0.0.9
record
2020-06-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Show 4 earlier eventsHide 4 earlier events

0.0.5
record
2020-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
save_object
0.0.2
record
2019-11-07 · diff ↗
0.0.1
record
2019-07-23
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-23
Total releases: 12 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 706 KB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rsagacmd")

Format

Pawley, S. (2024). Rsagacmd: Linking R with the Open-Source 'SAGA-GIS' Software (Version 0.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rsagacmd

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 Rsagacmd version 0.4.3 [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.

Report a problem with this page →