R Observatory: Metrics for gdalcubes version 0.7.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gdalcubes

0.7.4

Earth Observation Data Cubes from Satellite Image Collections

4packages depend

16.8Kdownloads / year

28.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Marius AppelFirst published 2019-05-2423 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Processing collections of Earth observation images as on-demand multispectral, multitemporal raster data cubes. Users define cubes by spatiotemporal extent, resolution, and spatial reference system and let 'gdalcubes' automatically apply cropping, reprojection, and resampling using the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' ('GDAL'). Implemented functions on data cubes include reduction over space and time, applying arithmetic expressions on pixel band values, moving window aggregates over time, filtering by space, time, bands, and predicates on pixel values, exporting data cubes as 'netCDF' or 'GeoTIFF' files, plotting, and extraction from spatial and or spatiotemporal features. All computational parts are implemented in C++, linking to the 'GDAL', 'netCDF', 'CURL', and 'SQLite' libraries. See Appel and Pebesma (2019) doi:10.3390/data4030092 for further details.

Install

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

install.packages("gdalcubes", 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("appelmar/gdalcubes")

Development version from appelmar/gdalcubes. 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-gdalcubes

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-gdalcubes

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-gdalcubes

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 23.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

28.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-03
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-13
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 88%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

16.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,468 · ~46/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

74630 days

2.9K90 days

16.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u27 autocran16.7K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ appelmar/gdalcubes

131Stars

30Forks

36Open issues

0Open PRs

22Releases

497Commits

8Contributors

remote-sensingsatellite-imageryrstatsspatial-analysis

497 commits · Last activity 2026-05-29 · +0.8% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-15 · 1262026-08-11 · 131

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/appelmar/gdalcubes on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CIAppVeyor

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp jsonlite ncdf4

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (8)

knitr rmarkdown stars av gifski sf tinytest lubridate

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

earthdatalogin sits stacr theiaR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Marius Appel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Marius Appel

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Roger Bivand

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.4.1

Edzer Pebesma

Contributor

Copyright holders (8)

Dropbox, Inc.

Copyright holder · added in 0.3.0

Adrian Colomitchi

Copyright holder

Florian Dang

Copyright holder

Ole Christian Eidheim

Copyright holder

Copyright holder

Copyright holder

Copyright holder

Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Niels Lohmann

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.5

Package Timeline

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

0.7.4Latest
2026-05-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.3
2026-01-19 · diff ↗
0.7.2
2025-12-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.7.1
2025-03-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.0
2024-03-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.4
2023-04-14 · diff ↗
0.6.3
2023-01-19 · diff ↗
0.6.2
2022-10-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.6.1
2022-03-23 · diff ↗
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2022-03-08 · diff ↗
0.5.1
2021-12-03 · diff ↗

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0.4.1
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.1
2020-08-27 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-08-27
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-26
check issues were not corrected in time
0.3.0
2020-08-06 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2020-05-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-10-21 · diff ↗
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0.2.1
2019-08-21 · diff ↗
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2019-08-08 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-05-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-24
Total releases: 23 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Analysis of Spatial Data

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Format

Appel, M., Dropbox, Inc., Bivand, R., Colomitchi, A., Dang, F., Eidheim, O. C., Hinnant, H., Kamiński, T., Ooms, J., Pebesma, E., Thompson, P., & Van Winkle, L. (2026). gdalcubes: Earth Observation Data Cubes from Satellite Image Collections (Version 0.7.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gdalcubes

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gdalcubes version 0.7.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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