R Observatory: Metrics for link2GI version 0.7-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

link2GI

0.7-2Package record

Linking Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing and Other Command Line Tools

1packages depend

10.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris ReudenbachCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions and tools for using open GIS and remote sensing command-line interfaces in a reproducible environment.

Changes in 0.7-2

**changes**

New Self-describing OTB API (Workflow C) using CLI -help as source of truth
Robust command building (otb_build_cmd(), otb_set_out()), unified execution
Bounded Windows + Linux OTB discovery aligned
Full CRAN compliance (R CMD check clean)
Legacy API kept for backward compatibility
Added testthat coverage for the OTB wrapper (runOTB command construction and argument handling).

link2GI 0.7-1

**bugfixes** *(Fix #67)*

fix unintended recursion in project setup logic
refactor initProj() to a single, non-recursive execution path
prevent repeated re-initialisation of folders, git, and renv

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**documentation**

update complete documentation to meet new concepts and calls

link2GI 0.7-0

**changes**

new Self-describing OTB API (otb_capabilities(), otb_args_spec(), otb_build_cmd())

**bugfixes** *(Fix #68)*

fix OTB path and environment setup (bin/root handling)
stabilize -help introspection (stdout, non-zero exit codes)
fix runOTB() output handling and error propagation

**documentation**

update vignette to use introspected parameters instead of hard-coded lists

link2GI 0.6-2

bugfixes:

fix cran issues git2r

link2GI 0.6-1

bugfixes:

fix cran issues
fixing of the vignettes and examples

changes:

dropping of linkALL

link2GI 0.6-0

bugfixes:

issue #65

changes:

variable rootDir is deprecated and now root_folder

new feature:

extension of initProj to a lightweight project setup tool

link2GI 0.5-4

bugfixes:

#61 #62 #63

link2GI 0.5-3

bugfixes:

#59 , #58
fix rgrass7 dependencies

link2GI 0.5-2

new feature:

add return of vector data in OTB calls

bugfixes:

#58
minor fixes in runOTB
prelim fix of #57
fix of #56
minor fixes

new feature:

integration of stars and terra raster objects for linking GRASS
update of documentation

link2GI 0.5-1

bugfixes:

prelim fix of #57
fix of #56
minor fixes

new feature:

integration of stars and terra raster objects for linking GRASS
update of documentation

link2GI 0.5-0

bugfixes:

prelim fix of #56

new feature:

changing to linkGRASS for both GRASS 7.x/8.x - keeping linkGRASS7for backwards compatibility

link2GI 0.4-7

bugfixes:

#52

link2GI 0.4-6

bugfixes:

pre fix #52

link2GI 0.4-5

bugfixes:

fix #42, #44, #46, #48, #49

new feature:

add installation vignette
update some documentation

link2GI 0.4-4

bugfixes:

fix #42

link2GI 0.4-3

bugfixes:

fix #40

link2GI 0.4-2

bugfixes:

fix #38

link2GI 0.4-1

new feature

add linkall
add direct reading and writing of vector data to GRASS sqlite

bugfixes:

smaller bugfixes

link2GI 0.4-0

new feature

parse and return OTB API help for interactive use in R
add runOTB function according to #29

bugfixes:

#19 #21 #22 #26 #29 fixed
first parsing of the new GRASS (since 7.8.x ) start file

link2GI 0.3-7

new feature:

improved implementation of parseOTB

bugfixes:

several fixes
examples and typos

link2GI 0.3-6

new feature:

full re-implementation of linkGDAL returns now all gdal installations at a given search path

bugfixes:

several fixes for Windows search and linking
examples and typos

link2GI 0.3-5

new feature:

add manual build function for UNC paths

bugfixes:

remove search argument for PRZP
several fixes for Windows search and linking
Comments and typos

link2GI 0.3-4

new feature:

add boolean variable if required API exists

bugfixes:

fix of the quiet option
fix the search order
straighten GRASS problems with r.in.lidar
several fixes for Windows search and linking
fix and add a lot of examples
Comments and typos

link2GI 0.3-3

new feature:

by default the latest version of each API is selected

bugfixes:

OTB basic wrapper fixed for Windows
new examples
Typos

link2GI 0.3-2

new feature:

ver_select can be used directly with the number of selection
OTB basic wrapper

bugfixes:

RSAGA related fixes
Typos

link2GI 0.3-1

new feature:

add returnPaths argument for suppress all returns

bugfixes:

windows RSAGA related fixes

link2GI 0.3-0

The 0.3-0 version is quite restructured to conform to both

common R conventions (e.g. no hidden globals) and to make the calls

more intuitive and one-line-like. some of the function follow a slightly

different naming and argument setting. This was done to keep in line with further

CLI linking functionality.

new feature:

Linux support for multi-version selection
remove all global variables (re-opened #3)
homogenization of the link calls
wrap searchAPIOS functions with OS-agnostic findAPI functions
add a more robust return of all paths and environmental variables as lists
add a quiet option to supress all! console outputs ( #4)

bugfixes:

remove tailing backslashes
force compatibility to RSAGA and SAGA ver 3+

link2GI 0.2-2

new feature:

findGRASS a function that wraps for searchGRASSW and searchGRASSX

link2GI 0.2-1

bugfixes:

fix github s #2 #3 #5

link2GI 0.2-0

bugfixes:

fix several small bugs

link2GI 0.1-0

Initial release

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("link2GI", 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/link2GI")

Development version from r-spatial/link2GI. 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-link2gi

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-link2GI

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-link2GI

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: 5.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 0.7-2

READMEYes · 410 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7-2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 46 (24 internal)
Examples that run: 21%7 run in a plain check · 25 never run · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 68%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 84%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,697 · ~28/day · ~865/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59130 days

1.8K90 days

10.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on348 r2u4 autocran93 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-spatial/link2gi ↗Organization: r-spatial

29Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

670Commits

11Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 670 commits · Last activity 2025-12-28 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7-4, ahead of CRAN 0.7-2 (checked 2026-10-18) · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-06 · 262026-07-08 · 29

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-spatial/link2gi on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)tic

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-28

pkgdown site last built 2020-12-06, before release 0.7-2 (2025-12-23)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing link2GI adds 108 packages (54 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

devtools R.utils roxygen2 sf brew yaml terramethodsutilsrstudioapi renv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

knitr rmarkdown sp rgrass stars curl markdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

OTBsegm

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Chris Reudenbach

Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2017), Author

Tim Appelhans

Contributor · added in 0.2-0

Releases (20)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7-2Latest
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2025-12-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
otb_args_spec, otb_build_cmd, otb_capabilities, otb_optional, otb_required, otb_required_with_output, otb_set_out, otb_show, runOTB_isolated
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6-2
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2024-10-28 · diff ↗
0.6-1
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2024-06-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
linkAll, linkGRASS7, paramGRASSw, paramGRASSx, setenvGDAL, setenvGRASSw, setenvOTB

added 5 exports
createFolders, loadEnvi, saveEnvi, setupProj, setup_default
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5-3
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2023-10-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5-2
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2023-01-27 · diff ↗
0.5-0
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2022-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
linkGRASS
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4-7
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2021-09-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4-5
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2020-12-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-02-29

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0.4.3
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2020-02-29 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-02-20
check problems were not corrected in time Warning on data() not making required packages available
0.4.1
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2019-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
gvec2sf, linkAll, sf2gvec
0.4-0
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2019-11-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
gvec2sf, mkOTBcmd, sf2gvec

added 1 export
runOTB
0.3-7
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2019-09-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
findGDAL, mkOTBcmd, searchGDALW, searchGDALX, setenvGDAL
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3-5
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2018-10-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
checkPCDomain
0.3-4
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2018-10-03 · diff ↗
0.3-3
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2018-09-22 · diff ↗
0.3-2
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2018-08-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
parseOTBAlgorithms, parseOTBFunction
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3-0
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2018-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
getSpatialClass, getparams_GRASS4W, getparams_GRASS4X, linkgdalUtils, r_gvec, setenv_GRASS4W, setenv_OTB, w_gvec

added 12 exports
findGRASS, findOTB, findSAGA, gvec2sf, linkGDAL, paramGRASSw, paramGRASSx, searchOTBX, searchSAGAX, setenvGRASSw, setenvOTB, sf2gvec
0.2-1
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2018-02-07 · diff ↗
0.2-0
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2018-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
getGrassParams4W, getGrassParams4X, setGrassEnv4W, setOTBEnv

added 6 exports
getparams_GRASS4W, getparams_GRASS4X, r_gvec, setenv_GRASS4W, setenv_OTB, w_gvec
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1-0
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2017-01-22
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-22
Total releases: 20 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 148 KB

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