R Observatory: Metrics for duckspatial version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

duckspatial

1.2.1

R Interface to 'DuckDB' Database with Spatial Extension

4packages depend

20.8Kdownloads / year

88.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Adrián Cidre GonzálezFirst published 2025-04-199 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fast and memory-efficient functions to analyze and manipulate large spatial datasets. It leverages the fast analytical capabilities of ‘DuckDB’ and its spatial extension (see https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/spatial/overview) while maintaining compatibility with R’s spatial data ecosystem to work with spatial vector data.

Install

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

install.packages("duckspatial", 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("Cidree/duckspatial")

Development version from Cidree/duckspatial. 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-duckspatial

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

# 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-duckspatial

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-duckspatial

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.92

88.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

19

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 508 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 5%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 3%

Downloads

20.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,597 · ~57/day · ~1.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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4.3K30 days

15.6K90 days

20.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cidree/duckspatial

117Stars

4Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

700Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 700 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · +0.9% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-21 · 402026-08-10 · 117

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cidree/duckspatial on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Funding

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-06-04

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-06-04

Evidence

claude: on 2026-06-04 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

arrow cli DBI dbplyr dplyr duckdb (>= 1.5.4.2)geoarrow glue jsonlite lifecycle nanoarrow rlang sf tibbletoolsunits uuid withr wk

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

areal bench duckdbfs geojsonsf ggplot2 knitr lwgeom patchwork quadkeyr quarto rmarkdown scales terra testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

cnefetools duckh3 geobr geocodebr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Adrián Cidre González

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Adrián Cidre González

Author, Maintainer

Egor Kotov

Author · added in 0.9.0

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Author · added in 0.9.0

Package Timeline

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

1.2.1Latest
2026-07-04 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.0
2026-07-02 · diff ↗
1.1.2
2026-06-22 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2026-06-06 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2026-05-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0
2026-03-30 · diff ↗
0.9.0
2026-01-10 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-04-29 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-04-19
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-19
Total releases: 9 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 4.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

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Format

Cidre González, A., Kotov, E., & Pereira, R. H. M. (2026). duckspatial: R Interface to 'DuckDB' Database with Spatial Extension (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.duckspatial

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for duckspatial version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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