R Observatory: Metrics for geosimilarity version 3.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geosimilarity

3.9Package record

Geographically Optimal Similarity

0packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

96.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LyuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Understanding spatial association is essential for spatial statistical inference, including factor exploration and spatial prediction. Geographically optimal similarity (GOS) model is an effective method for spatial prediction, as described in Yongze Song (2022) doi:10.1007/s11004-022-10036-8. GOS was developed based on the geographical similarity principle, as described in Axing Zhu (2018) doi:10.1080/19475683.2018.1534890. GOS has advantages in more accurate spatial prediction using fewer samples and critically reduced prediction uncertainty.

Changes in 3.9

Correct maintainer surname spelling from Lv to Lyu for pinyin compliance.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("geosimilarity", 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("ausgis/geosimilarity")

Development version from ausgis/geosimilarity. 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-geosimilarity

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-geosimilarity

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-geosimilarity

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: 3.0 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

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.9

READMEYes · 71 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.9Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

geosimilarity

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,167 · ~12/day · ~361/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44530 days

1.2K90 days

4.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on90 r2u9 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ausgis/geosimilarity ↗Organization: ausgis

10Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

161Commits

1Commit identities

rspatial-predictionsgeoinformaticsgeospatial-analyticsspatial-statistics

161 commits · Last activity 2026-03-29 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.10, ahead of CRAN 3.9 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 92026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ausgis/geosimilarity 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-29

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing geosimilarity adds 28 packages (15 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

statsparalleltibble dplyr purrr ggplot2 magrittr ggrepel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

cowplot viridis car DescTools PerformanceAnalytics testthat sdsfun rmarkdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.9

Yongze Song

Author, Copyright holder · added in 3.0

Maintainer since 3.0 (2024), previously Yongze Song (1.1 to 2.2)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Wenbo Lv

no longer listed · 3.0 to 3.8

Releases (10)

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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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added 1 export
removeoutlier
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2024-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
bestkappa

added 2 exports
%>%, gos_bestkappa
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-17
Total releases: 10 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 915 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("geosimilarity")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1007/s11004-022-10036-8.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geosimilarity version 3.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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