R Observatory: Metrics for bfsMaps version 1.99.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bfsMaps

1.99.4Package record

Plot Maps from Switzerland by Swiss Federal Statistical Office

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andri SignorellCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

At the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), spatial maps of Switzerland are available free of charge as 'Cartographic bases for small-scale thematic mapping'. This package contains convenience functions to import ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) shape files using the package 'sf' and to plot them easily and quickly without having to worry too much about the technical details. It contains utilities to combine multiple areas to one single polygon and to find neighbours for single regions. For any point on a map, a special locator can be used to determine to which municipality, district or canton it belongs.

Changes in 1.99.4

NEW FUNCTIONS:

GeoCode() yields coordinates for an address using the GeoAdmin API

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bfsMaps", 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("AndriSignorell/bfsMaps")

Development version from AndriSignorell/bfsMaps. 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-bfsmaps

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-bfsMaps

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-bfsMaps

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: 2.6 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 1.99.4

READMEYes · 10 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.99.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%10 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 77%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (1)

bfsMaps Companion PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,679 · ~11/day · ~327/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37730 days

96790 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on118 r2u39 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

andrisignorell/bfsmaps ↗Account: AndriSignorell

4Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

33Commits

3Commit identities

33 commits · Last activity 2025-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 145
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-03-19 · 32026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andrisignorell/bfsmaps on 2026-10-18.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bfsMaps adds 55 packages (37 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 4.1.0basestatsDescTools

Imports (4)

graphicsgrDevicessf httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Andri Signorell

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.3 (2020)

Juerg Guggenbuehl

Contributor · added in 0.9.6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jeffery S. Evans

no longer listed · 0.9.6 to 0.9.8

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.99.4Latest
record
2025-07-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
GeoCode
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.99.3
record
2023-07-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
RequireMap, LoadMap, RemoveHoles

added 2 exports
PlotPremReg, GetMap
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.8
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2022-10-09 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-09-25
0.9.7
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2022-09-25 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-09-04
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.9.6
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗
0.9.5
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2020-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
RemoveHoles, DownloadBfSMaps
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.9.4
record
2020-04-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
AddWaters

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0.9.3
record
2020-03-26
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-26
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 47 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bfsMaps")

Format

Signorell, A., & Guggenbuehl, J. (2025). bfsMaps: Plot Maps from Switzerland by Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Version 1.99.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bfsMaps

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 bfsMaps version 1.99.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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