R Observatory: Metrics for geobounds version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geobounds

1.0.1Package record

Download Administrative Boundary Data from 'geoBoundaries'

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Diego HernangómezCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools to download individual country boundaries and global composite boundaries from 'geoBoundaries' https://www.geoboundaries.org/ across multiple administrative ('ADM') levels. Returns boundaries as 'sf' objects for mapping and spatial analysis. Runfola et al. (2020) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231866 describe the underlying database.

Changes in 1.0.1

Argument errors now display braces in supplied values literally instead of interpreting them as message formatting.
Numeric text ADM levels such as "1" now resolve to the corresponding code, such as "ADM1".
Country inputs now reject empty or wholly unmatched values, and Kosovo aliases must match "Kosovo" or "XKX" exactly.
gb_clear_cache() now rejects unsafe cache locations before recursively deleting cached data. Cache functions also validate scalar arguments, report directory creation failures clearly and confirm that requested deletions succeeded.
gb_get() now returns NULL when no downloaded boundaries are available. It also rejects missing or non-scalar download options and invalid cache directory values before requesting data. Invalid cached archives are removed with an actionable error so a subsequent request can download them again.
gb_get_max_adm_lvl() now derives the maximum level from each ADM label instead of assuming that available metadata levels are consecutive.
gb_get_world() now returns NULL when a download fails or no requested country is available, and validates download options before requesting data.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("geobounds", 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("dieghernan/geobounds")

Development version from dieghernan/geobounds. 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-geobounds

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-geobounds

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-geobounds

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: 1.4 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

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 620 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%5 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 44% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

geobounds: Download administrative boundaries in R HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,528 · ~9/day · ~284/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44030 days

1.2K90 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on78 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

dieghernan/geobounds ↗Account: dieghernan

11Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

238Commits

3Commit identities

administrative-boundariesapigeoboundariesrr-packagespatial-datacrancran-r

238 commits · Last activity 2026-10-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 55%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 9

Stars over time

2025-11-05 · 12026-08-21 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

24 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 9 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dieghernan/geobounds on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (6)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-17

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (6)

lintrLint workflowjarlAirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-03-22
Seen in the repository: .github/agents, .github/skills
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-25
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Codexfirst seen 2026-07-18
Seen in the repository: .codex
Named in .Rbuildignore: .codex

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing geobounds adds 30 packages (21 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

cli countrycode dplyr httr2 sftoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

ggplot2 jsonlite knitr quarto testthat tibble withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Diego Hernangómez

William & Mary geoLab

Data contributor · added in 1.0.1

for the geoBoundaries project

Listed in earlier versions (1)

William and Mary geoLab

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.0.0

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-11
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from CC BY 4.0 in 1.0.0
Copyright: Package code is MIT licensed. See file COPYRIGHTS for data and figure attribution.
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 524 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("geobounds")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geobounds version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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