R Observatory: Metrics for leafgl version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

leafgl

0.2.4Package record

High-Performance 'WebGl' Rendering for Package 'leaflet'

4packages dependsuggested by 2

312.3Kdownloads / year

92.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim AppelhansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides bindings to the 'Leaflet.glify' JavaScript library which extends the 'leaflet' JavaScript library to render large data in the browser using 'WebGl'.

Install

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

install.packages("leafgl", 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-spatial/leafgl")

Development version from r-spatial/leafgl. 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-leafgl

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-leafgl

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-leafgl

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-23

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-12
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.4

READMEYes · 633 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 40%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

312.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #749 · ~856/day · ~26K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33K30 days

67.3K90 days

312.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.9K r2u6 autocran1.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-spatial/leafgl ↗Organization: r-spatial

289Stars

32Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

220Commits

9Commit identities

220 commits · Last activity 2026-04-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.4 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 20
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 26

Stars over time

2025-09-29 · 2812026-07-30 · 289

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/r-spatial/leafgl on 2026-10-11.

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 2026-04-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing leafgl adds 51 packages (31 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

htmltools leaflet sf yyjsonrgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

colourvalues sp shiny testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

21indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tmap sits fitbitViz IceSat2R

Suggests, most downloaded first

leafem spatialrisk

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Leaflet.glify plugin

Olivier Roy

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.4Latest
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2026-04-15 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
clearGlGroup
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.2
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2024-11-13 · diff ↗
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.1
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2020-06-28
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-28
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.6 MB

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("leafgl")

Format

Appelhans, T., Fay, C., Gatscha, S., Johnson, K., Plummer, R., & Roy, O. (2026). leafgl: High-Performance 'WebGl' Rendering for Package 'leaflet' (Version 0.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.leafgl

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 leafgl version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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