This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-01-16. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'fuzzyjoin'

Details below reflect version 0.9.4, its last release before removal.

arealDB

0.9.4

Harmonise and Integrate Heterogeneous Areal Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Steffen Ehrmann5 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Many relevant applications in the environmental and socioeconomic sciences use areal data, such as biodiversity checklists, agricultural statistics, or socioeconomic surveys. For applications that surpass the spatial, temporal or thematic scope of any single data source, data must be integrated from several heterogeneous sources. Inconsistent concepts, definitions, or messy data tables make this a tedious and error-prone process. 'arealDB' tackles those problems and helps the user to integrate a harmonised databases of areal data. Read the paper at Ehrmann, Seppelt & Meyer (2020) doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104799.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/arealDB/arealDB_0.9.4.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "arealDB_0.9.4.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.9.4) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("luckinet/arealDB")

Development version from luckinet/arealDB. 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-arealdb

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-arealDB

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMEYes · 494 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

archive beepr checkmate dplyr fuzzyjoin magrittr ontologics progress purrr readr rlang rmapshaper stringr sf tabshiftr tibble tidyr tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown bookdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Steffen Ehrmann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Steffen Ehrmann

Author, Maintainer

Arne Rümmler

Author, Contributor

Carsten Meyer

Author · added in 0.3.9

Contributors (2)

Arne Rümmler

Author, Contributor

Felipe Melges

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Carsten Mayer

no longer listed · 0.3.4

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-01-16
requires archived package 'fuzzyjoin'
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.4
2025-01-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.6.3
2023-07-03 · diff ↗
0.6.2
2023-06-15 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-15
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-09-08
check problems were not corrected in time
0.3.9
2021-07-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.4
2020-07-01
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

Total releases: 5
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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