R Observatory: Metrics for cshapes version 2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cshapes

2.0Package record

The CShapes 2.0 Dataset and Utilities

0packages dependsuggested by 2

34.2Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luc GirardinCRAN page ↗

Package for CShapes 2.0, a GIS dataset of country borders (1886-today). Includes functions for data extraction and the computation of distance matrices and -lists.

Install

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

install.packages("cshapes", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-cshapes

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-cshapes

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-cshapes

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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 2.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

34.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,536 · ~94/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6.2K90 days

34.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on245 r2u12 autocran174 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cshapes adds 43 packages (29 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

sf rmapshaper sp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

spacetime countryatlas

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Luc Girardin

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2021) · added in 2.0

Guy Schvitz

Author · added in 2.0

Nils B. Weidmann

Author

Previously maintained by Nils B. Weidmann (0.1-1 to 0.6).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

no longer listed · 0.1-1 to 0.6

Doreen Kuse

no longer listed · 0.1-1 to 0.3-1

Releases (19)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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0.4-2
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2013-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
cshapes2yearly
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2012-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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2011-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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2009-11-15 · diff ↗
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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2009-08-13
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17

Package metadata

First published: 2009-08-13
Total releases: 19 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 4.0 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cshapes")

Format

Girardin, L., Schvitz, G., & Weidmann, N. B. (2021). cshapes: The CShapes 2.0 Dataset and Utilities (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cshapes

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 cshapes version 2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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