R Observatory: Metrics for geographiclib version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geographiclib

0.4.2Package record

Access to 'GeographicLib'

1packages depend

7.7Kdownloads / year

73.2%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Bindings to the 'GeographicLib' C++ library https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/ for precise geodetic calculations including geodesic computations (distance, bearing, paths, intersections), map projections (UTM/UPS, Transverse Mercator, Lambert Conformal Conic, and more), grid reference systems (MGRS, Geohash, GARS, Georef), coordinate conversions (geocentric, local Cartesian), and polygon area on the WGS84 ellipsoid. All functions are fully vectorized.

Changes in 0.4.2

Remove unnecessary precision from test, thanks to CRAN found in r-release-macos-x86_64 and r-oldrel-macos-x86_64.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("geographiclib", 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/geographiclib")

Development version from hypertidy/geographiclib. 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-geographiclib

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-geographiclib

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-geographiclib

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

1WARNING12OK

Check messages

WARNINGwhether package can be installedr-release-macos-x86_64

Found the following significant warnings:
  Math.cpp:59:8: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile float' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:60:9: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile float' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:59:8: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:60:9: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:59:8: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile long double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:60:9: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile long double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
See ‘/Volumes/Builds/packages/big-sur-x86_64/results/4.6/geographiclib.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
* used C++ compiler: ‘Apple clang version 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)’
* used SDK: ‘MacOSX11.3.1.sdk’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNINGNow
WARNING11 OK, 1 WARNING2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.2

READMEYes · 381 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.2Citation fileNo

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%25 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

Geodesic Calculations HTML
Grid Reference Systems: MGRS, Geohash, GARS, and Georef HTML
Introduction to geographiclib HTML
Local Coordinates and the Ellipsoid HTML
Map Projections HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,645 · ~21/day · ~640/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

98930 days

2.8K90 days

7.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on269 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hypertidy/geographiclib ↗Organization: hypertidy

9Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

71Commits

1Commit identities

71 commits · Last activity 2026-03-06 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.2.9002, ahead of CRAN 0.4.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-16 · 12026-07-07 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hypertidy/geographiclib 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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-10
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing geographiclib adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 298 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Michael Sumner

Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2026), Author

Charles Karney

Copyright holder, Author

GeographicLib author and maintainer

Mark Borgerding

Copyright holder

kissfft library (BSD-3-Clause)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-02-25
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-25
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 477 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("geographiclib")

Format

Sumner, M., Borgerding, M., & Karney, C. (2026). geographiclib: Access to 'GeographicLib' (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.geographiclib

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geographiclib version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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