R Observatory: Metrics for SpatialKDE version 0.8.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SpatialKDE

0.8.2Package record

Kernel Density Estimation for Spatial Data

1packages dependsuggested by 1

6Kdownloads / year

80.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jan CahaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Calculate Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) for spatial data. The algorithm is inspired by the tool 'Heatmap' from 'QGIS'. The method is described by: Hart, T., Zandbergen, P. (2014) doi:10.1108/PIJPSM-04-2013-0039, Nelson, T. A., Boots, B. (2008) doi:10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05548.x, Chainey, S., Tompson, L., Uhlig, S.(2008) doi:10.1057/palgrave.sj.8350066.

Changes in 0.8.2

allow supression of progress bar using the quiet = TRUE parameter, by default the parameter is FALSE so it outputs the progress bar

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("SpatialKDE", 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("JanCaha/SpatialKDE")

Development version from JanCaha/SpatialKDE. 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-spatialkde

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-SpatialKDE

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-SpatialKDE

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: 8.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.2

READMEYes · 125 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

SpatialKDE quickstart

How these are measured

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,047 · ~16/day · ~499/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67930 days

1.7K90 days

6K1 year

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Also on388 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jancaha/spatialkde ↗Account: JanCaha

12Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

203Commits

3Commit identities

rspatialkdeqgis

203 commits · Last activity 2023-02-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-29 · 102026-07-07 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jancaha/spatialkde on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-02-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-02-18

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SpatialKDE adds 32 packages (20 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

sf dplyr glue magrittr rlang vctrsmethodsraster

LinkingTo (2)

cpp11 progress

Suggests (6)

tmap sp knitr rmarkdown testthat xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sfhotspot

Suggests, most downloaded first

wingen

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jan Caha

Author, Maintainer since 0.5.0 (2019)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-16
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 85 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SpatialKDE")

Format

Caha, J. (2023). SpatialKDE: Kernel Density Estimation for Spatial Data (Version 0.8.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SpatialKDE

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SpatialKDE version 0.8.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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