R Observatory: Metrics for geoflow version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geoflow

1.4.0Package record

Orchestrate Geospatial (Meta)Data Management Workflows and Manage FAIR Services

0packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

3.5%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Emmanuel BlondelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An engine to facilitate the orchestration and execution of metadata-driven data management workflows, in compliance with 'FAIR' (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data management principles. By means of a pivot metadata model, relying on the 'DublinCore' standard (https://dublincore.org/), a unique source of metadata can be used to operate multiple and inter-connected data management actions. Users can also customise their own workflows by creating specific actions but the library comes with a set of native actions targeting common geographic information and data management, in particular actions oriented to the publication on the web of metadata and data resources to provide standard discovery and access services. At first, default actions of the library were meant to focus on providing turn-key actions for geospatial (meta)data: 1) by creating manage geospatial (meta)data complying with 'ISO/TC211' (https://committee.iso.org/home/tc211) and 'OGC' (https://www.ogc.org/standards/) geographic information standards (eg 19115/19119/19110/19139) and related best practices (eg. 'INSPIRE'); and 2) by facilitating extraction, reading and publishing of standard geospatial (meta)data within widely used software that compound a Spatial Data Infrastructure ('SDI'), including spatial databases (eg. 'PostGIS'), metadata catalogues (eg. 'GeoNetwork', 'CSW' servers), data servers (eg. 'GeoServer'). The library was then extended to actions for other domains: 1) biodiversity (meta)data standard management including handling of 'EML' metadata, and their management with 'DataOne' servers, 2) in situ sensors, remote sensing and model outputs (meta)data standard management by handling part of 'CF' conventions, 'NetCDF' data format and 'OPeNDAP' access protocol, and their management with 'Thredds' servers, 3) generic / domain agnostic (meta)data standard managers ('DublinCore', 'DataCite'), to facilitate the publication of data within (meta)data repositories such as 'Zenodo' (https://zenodo.org) or DataVerse (https://dataverse.org/). The execution of several actions will then allow to cross-reference (meta)data resources in each action performed, offering a way to bind resources between each other (eg. reference 'Zenodo' 'DOI' in 'GeoNetwork'/'GeoServer' metadata, or vice versa reference 'GeoNetwork'/'GeoServer' links in 'Zenodo' or 'EML' metadata). The use of standardized configuration files ('JSON' or 'YAML' formats) allow fully reproducible workflows to facilitate the work of data and information managers.

Changes in 1.4.0

**Enhancements**

#381 Enhance cell components extraction to manage Windows-style line endings (CRLF, i.e. \r\n)
#448 Add 'outdir' argument for init / executeWorkflow & rely strictly on 'dir' arg as working environment to fetch resources

**Bug fixes**

#453 Error while trying to publish in geonetwork with no data associated

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("geoflow", 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("r-geoflow/geoflow")

Development version from r-geoflow/geoflow. 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-geoflow

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-geoflow

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘lwgeom’ ‘smoothr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 19.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-10-01
WARNING10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-09-24
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.4.0

READMEYes · 528 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 115includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%16 never run
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,918 · ~16/day · ~486/mo

Releases R versions

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44130 days

1.4K90 days

5.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

r-geoflow/geoflow ↗Organization: r-geoflow

69Stars

17Forks

25Open issues

1Open PRs

23Releases

1,729Commits

9Commit identities

rgeospatialspatialworkflowdatametadatafairinspire

1,729 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · +1.5% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4.0.9004, ahead of CRAN 1.4.0 (checked 2026-10-21) · Discussions: 13 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 482026-10-15 · 69

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-geoflow/geoflow on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

54 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing geoflow adds 93 packages (52 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, arrow 4.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (30)

R6methodsdotenv benchmarkme httr mime jsonlite yaml XML xml2 rdflib curl whisker digest dplyr readr arrow zip png uuid sf sfarrow lwgeom smoothr terra geometa geosapi geonapi geonode4R (>= 0.1-2)ows4R

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-10-09
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 266 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("geoflow")

Format

Blondel, E., Barde, J., Bennici, A., Grasset, B., Heintz, W., Le Bras, Y., Lerigoleur, E., Ooms, J., Poulain, S., & Rouan, M. (2026). geoflow: Orchestrate Geospatial (Meta)Data Management Workflows and Manage FAIR Services (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.geoflow

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geoflow version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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