R Observatory: Metrics for arcgislayers version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

arcgislayers

0.7.0Package record

Harness ArcGIS Data Services

2packages dependsuggested by 1

15.5Kdownloads / year

40.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Josiah ParryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Enables users of 'ArcGIS Enterprise', 'ArcGIS Online', or 'ArcGIS Platform' to read, write, publish, or manage vector and raster data via ArcGIS location services REST API endpoints https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/.

Changes in 0.7.0

New upload_parquet() adds a local parquet file to your portal as an "Apache Parquet" item, and read_parquet_layer() reads one back into R. Both are experimental. arrow and geoarrow are now suggested packages
Tests and examples that require internet access no longer run on CRAN
arc_count() gains fields and crs, matching arc_select(). fields is validated against the layer and enables distinct counts via returnDistinctValues
arc_select(fields = "") returns geometry only for a layer, and rows without columns for a table. It previously aborted with argument is of length zero (#248)
arc_select() retries transient request failures and, if a page still fails, reports how many failed and why. Failed pages were previously passed to the parser as if they were responses, surfacing as subscript out of bounds (#242, #283)
Removes the unused print_definition_values() helper, which printed whole definition objects (#256)
New arc_count() returns the number of features a query would return without downloading them (#293)
Documents and tests passing Esri query parameters such as returnDistinctValues through ... (#233)
download_attachments() now rejects NA and empty values in the name, url, and contentType columns. The checks were written but silently ignored

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("arcgislayers", 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-ArcGIS/arcgislayers")

Development version from R-ArcGIS/arcgislayers. 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-arcgislayers

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-arcgislayers

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-arcgislayers

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 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-20

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-15
OK14 OK2026-04-19
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
OK14 OK2026-03-12
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 20
Examples that run: 20%4 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 16 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

How these are measured

Downloads

15.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,076 · ~43/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

4.2K90 days

15.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on181 r2u28 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-arcgis/arcgislayers ↗Organization: R-ArcGIS

64Stars

11Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

591Commits

12Commit identities

arcgisesrigisr-spatialrstats

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 591 commits · Last activity 2026-09-26 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.6.2) than CRAN on 2026-10-21 · Discussions: 10 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 273
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-07 · 582026-08-13 · 64

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-arcgis/arcgislayers on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-09, before release 0.7.0 (2026-09-27)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

For agents and models (1)

llms.txt

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-09-10
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing arcgislayers adds 30 packages (24 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, arcgisutils 4.5 MB, RcppSimdJson 3.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (12)

arcgisutils arcpbf cli httr2 (>= 1.0.5)jsonify lifecycle RcppSimdJson rlang sf terrautilsyyjsonr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat vctrs curl dplyr arrow geoarrow

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

arcgis actiwalkability

Suggests, most downloaded first

FedData

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Josiah Parry

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2024)

Antony Barja

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.7.0Latest
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2026-09-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
arc_count, read_parquet_layer, upload_parquet
0.6.1
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2026-07-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0
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2026-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_attachments
0.5.2
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2025-10-28 · diff ↗
0.5.1
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2025-10-22 · diff ↗
0.5.0
record
2025-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
add_layer_definition, delete_layer_definition, list_raster_fns, update_attachments, update_layer_definition
0.4.0
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2025-04-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
encode_field_values, list_service_raster_fns, set_layer_aliases
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-09-27
0.3.1
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2024-09-27 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-08-19
requires archived package 'arcpbf'
0.3.0
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2024-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
download_attachments, pull_field_aliases, query_layer_attachments
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
record
2024-02-27
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-27
Total releases: 10 / 2 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 183 KB

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Cite this package

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citation("arcgislayers")

Format

Parry, J., Barja, A., Bass, M., Pousson, E., Vernon, K., & Zomorrodi, R. (2026). arcgislayers: Harness ArcGIS Data Services (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.arcgislayers

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for arcgislayers version 0.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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