R Observatory: Metrics for geographiclib version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geographiclib

0.4.2

Access to 'GeographicLib'

1packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

73.2%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerFirst published 2026-02-253 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

1WARNING12OK

Failing flavors

WARNING r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 6.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.08

73.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

WARNING2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 381 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,882 · ~15/day · ~445/mo

Releases R versions

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59330 days

2.3K90 days

5.3K1 year

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Also on245 r2u3 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ hypertidy/geographiclib

9Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

71Commits

1Contributors

71 commits · Last activity 2026-03-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-16 · 12026-07-07 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hypertidy/geographiclib on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Sumner

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Michael Sumner

Maintainer, Author

Charles Karney

Copyright holder, Author

Copyright holders (2)

Charles Karney

Copyright holder, Author

Mark Borgerding

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.2Latest
2026-03-04 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.1
2026-02-27 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2026-02-25
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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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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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geographiclib version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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