R Observatory: Metrics for googlePolylines version 0.8.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

googlePolylines

0.8.7Package record

Encoding Coordinates into 'Google' Polylines

5packages dependsuggested by 2

68.1Kdownloads / year

73.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David CooleyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Encodes simple feature ('sf') objects and coordinates, and decodes polylines using the 'Google' polyline encoding algorithm (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/utilities/polylinealgorithm).

Install

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

install.packages("googlePolylines", 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("SymbolixAU/googlePolylines")

Development version from SymbolixAU/googlePolylines. 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-googlepolylines

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-googlePolylines

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-googlePolylines

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: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.7

READMEYes · 182 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.8.7Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 33%2 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Google Polylines HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

68.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,766 · ~187/day · ~5.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.8K30 days

11.8K90 days

68.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on720 r2u3 autocran11.9K conda_forge100 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

symbolixau/googlepolylines ↗Organization: SymbolixAU

20Stars

8Forks

19Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

303Commits

11Commit identities

rpolyline-encoderr-spatialgoogle-mapsspatialgeospatialgisrstats

303 commits · Last activity 2026-09-20 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.8.8.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.8.7 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-14 · 212026-08-04 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/symbolixau/googlepolylines 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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

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 2026-08-28
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-08-28, 1 from forks

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 51 commit · Aug 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing googlePolylines adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

covr knitr rmarkdown sf sfheaders testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

4indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mapdeck googleway osrm opentripplanner valh

Suggests, most downloaded first

openrouteservice onemapsgapi

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

David Cooley

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2018)

Paulo Barcelos

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Author of c++ decode_polyline

Michael Chirico

Contributor · added in 0.8.7

Chris Muir

Contributor · added in 0.7.2

Releases (15)

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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 4.3.0 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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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-11-23 · diff ↗

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0.7.1
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2018-08-30 · diff ↗
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2018-08-29 · diff ↗
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2018-07-27 · diff ↗
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2018-05-25 · diff ↗
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2018-04-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
decode
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-01-09
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-09
Total releases: 15 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 0.8.0
Download size: 4.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("googlePolylines")

Format

Cooley, D., Barcelos, P., Chirico, M., & Muir, C. (2025). googlePolylines: Encoding Coordinates into 'Google' Polylines (Version 0.8.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.googlePolylines

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 googlePolylines version 0.8.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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