R Observatory: Metrics for geodist version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geodist

0.1.1Package record

Fast, Dependency-Free Geodesic Distance Calculations

24packages dependsuggested by 4

42.6Kdownloads / year

69.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark PadghamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Dependency-free, ultra fast calculation of geodesic distances. Includes the reference nanometre-accuracy geodesic distances of Karney (2013) doi:10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z, as used by the 'sf' package, as well as Haversine and Vincenty distances. Default distance measure is the "Mapbox cheap ruler" which is generally more accurate than Haversine or Vincenty for distances out to a few hundred kilometres, and is considerably faster. The main function accepts one or two inputs in almost any generic rectangular form, and returns either matrices of pairwise distances, or vectors of sequential distances.

Changes in 0.1.1

Minor changes:

Updated 'geodesic.c' source code to fix clang compiler warning

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("geodist", 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("hypertidy/geodist")

Development version from hypertidy/geodist. 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-geodist

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-geodist

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-geodist

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: 2.3 min · r-devel-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 0.1.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

geodist

How these are measured

Downloads

42.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,159 · ~117/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.3K30 days

8.1K90 days

42.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

hypertidy/geodist ↗Organization: hypertidy

96Stars

8Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

288Commits

7Commit identities

288 commits · Last activity 2026-10-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.1.020, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 952026-07-07 · 96

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hypertidy/geodist on 2026-10-11.

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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing geodist adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

24direct

4indirect

Imports 24

Suggested by 4

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

stplanr fuzzySim IceSat2R mixvlmc

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Mark Padgham

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2018)

Michael D. Sumner

Author

Charles F.F Karney

Copyright holder

Original author of included code for geodesic distances

Releases (9)

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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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added 1 export
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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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2019-03-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
georange

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-13
Total releases: 9 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 790 KB

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Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("geodist")

Format

Padgham, M., Karney, C. F. F., & Sumner, M. D. (2025). geodist: Fast, Dependency-Free Geodesic Distance Calculations (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.geodist

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geodist version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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