R Observatory: Metrics for isoband version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

isoband

0.3.0Package record

Generate Isolines and Isobands from Regularly Spaced Elevation Grids

16packages dependsuggested by 2

17.1Mdownloads / year

78.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit, PBC

A fast C++ implementation to generate contour lines (isolines) and contour polygons (isobands) from regularly spaced grids containing elevation data.

Changes in 0.3.0

General upkeep
Rewrite implementation to use cpp11

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("isoband", 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-lib/isoband")

Development version from r-lib/isoband. 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-isoband

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-isoband

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-isoband

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

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-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 0.3.0

READMEYes · 187 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Generating isolines and isobands HTML
Labeled isolines HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

17.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24 · ~46.8K/day · ~1.4M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3M30 days

4.1M90 days

17.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on185.5K r2u125 autocran1.7M conda_forge23.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/isoband ↗Organization: r-lib

132Stars

17Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

8Releases

246Commits

9Commit identities

246 commits · Last activity 2025-12-08 · Default branch at 0.3.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-06-27 · 1322026-07-07 · 132

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/isoband 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 2025-12-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing isoband adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB, cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

cligridrlangutils

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (9)

covr ggplot2 knitr magick bench rmarkdown sf testthat xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

6,965indirect

Imports 16

Suggested by 2

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ggplot2 tidyterra metR mapiso r5r ggdensity sfhotspot CCAMLRGIS eks plotdap ggcube SpatialPosition hmer densityarea rLakeHabitat ggpsychro

Suggests, most downloaded first

rayshader raem

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2025) · added in 0.2.2

Hadley Wickham

Author · added in 0.2.7

Claus O. Wilke

Author · added in 0.2.1

Original author

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.3.0

Previously maintained by Hadley Wickham (0.2.7) and Claus O. Wilke (0.1.0 to 0.2.6).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Claus Wilke

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.0

testthat and Catch authors

no longer listed · 0.2.4 to 0.2.6

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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0.2.6
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2022-10-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.5
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2021-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
label_placer_middle
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.4
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2021-03-03 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2020-12-01 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2020-06-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
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2020-04-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.2.0
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2019-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
angle_fixed, angle_halfcircle_bottom, angle_halfcircle_right, angle_identity, clip_lines, isobands_grob, isolines_grob, label_placer_manual, label_placer_minmax, label_placer_none, label_placer_simple
0.1.0
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2019-02-03
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-03
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("isoband")

Format

Pedersen, T. L., Posit, PBC, Wickham, H., & Wilke, C. O. (2025). isoband: Generate Isolines and Isobands from Regularly Spaced Elevation Grids (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.isoband

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for isoband version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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