R Observatory: Metrics for lwgeom version 0.2-17

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lwgeom

0.2-17Package record

Bindings to Selected 'liblwgeom' Functions for Simple Features

25packages dependsuggested by 54

462.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Edzer PebesmaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Access to selected functions found in 'liblwgeom' https://github.com/postgis/postgis/tree/master/liblwgeom, the light-weight geometry library used by 'PostGIS' http://postgis.net/.

Install

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

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

Development version from r-spatial/lwgeom. 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-lwgeom

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-lwgeom

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-lwgeom

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEtestsr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Running ‘azimuth.R’
  Comparing ‘azimuth.Rout’ to ‘azimuth.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘dist.R’
  Comparing ‘dist.Rout’ to ‘dist.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘geod.R’
  Comparing ‘geod.Rout’ to ‘geod.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘perimeter.R’
  Comparing ‘perimeter.Rout’ to ‘perimeter.Rout.save’ ...
9c9
< [1] 176215.7 149266.8 199587.9 375136.8 263512.7
---
> [1] 176214.9 149265.4 199586.8 375137.8 263512.6
12c12
< [1] 176215.7 149266.8 199587.9 375136.8 263512.7
---
> [1] 176214.9 149265.4 199586.8 375137.8 263512.6
  Running ‘testthat.R’
  Comparing ‘testthat.Rout’ to ‘testthat.Rout.save’ ... OK
  Running ‘twkb.R’
  Comparing ‘twkb.Rout’ to ‘twkb.Rout.save’ ... OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-20
WARNING9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-07-16
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR8 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2-17

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2-17Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 19 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 61%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

462.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #609 · ~1.3K/day · ~38.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41.9K30 days

97.9K90 days

462.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8.1K r2u5 autocran20.9K conda_forge267 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-spatial/lwgeom ↗Organization: r-spatial

66Stars

25Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

388Commits

21Commit identities

388 commits · Last activity 2026-07-19 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.2-16) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 612026-08-11 · 66

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

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

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowtic

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-19

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lwgeom adds 9 packages (8 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

Rcpp units sf

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp sf

Suggests (4)

covr sp geosphere testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

25direct

34indirect

Imports 25

Suggested by 54

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

sf stars leafem mapview ggspatial duckspatial smoothr spatialsample hydroloom sftrack hydrogeofetch nhdplusTools spatialEco move2 cartography cancensus od bcmaps RCzechia nhdR cmsafvis amadeus ICESat2VegR

and 31 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Edzer Pebesma

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2017)

Colin Rundel

Contributor

Andy Teucher

Contributor · added in 0.1-5

liblwgeom developers

Copyright holder

Releases (25)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2-17Latest
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2026-05-03 · current release · diff ↗
0.2-16
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2026-05-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2-15
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2026-01-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
st_geom_from_geohash, st_minimum_bounding_radius
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2-14
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2024-02-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
st_perimeter_lwgeom
0.2-13
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2023-05-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2-11
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2023-01-14 · diff ↗
0.2-10
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2022-11-19 · diff ↗
0.2-9
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2022-10-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2-8
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2021-10-06 · diff ↗
0.2-7
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2021-07-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
st_wrap_x
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.2-6
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2021-04-02 · diff ↗
0.2-5
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2020-06-13 · diff ↗
0.2-4
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2020-05-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2-3
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2020-04-12 · diff ↗
0.2-2
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2020-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
st_make_valid
0.2-1
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2020-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lwgeom_make_valid
0.2-0
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2020-01-31 · diff ↗
0.1-7
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2019-05-06 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1-6
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2019-02-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
st_endpoint
0.1-5
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2018-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
st_asewkt, st_astext, st_force_polygon_cw, st_is_polygon_cw, st_linesubstring, st_perimeter, st_perimeter_2d, st_startpoint
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1-4
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2018-01-28 · diff ↗
0.1-3
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2018-01-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
st_geod_covered_by, st_snap_to_grid
0.1-2
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2017-12-19 · diff ↗
0.1-1
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2017-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
st_geod_distance, st_subdivide
0.1-0
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2017-11-16
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-16
Total releases: 25 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Copyright: See COPYRIGHTS in the package
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 469 KB

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Analysis of Spatial Data

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citation("lwgeom")

Format

Pebesma, E., liblwgeom developers, Rundel, C., & Teucher, A. (2026). lwgeom: Bindings to Selected 'liblwgeom' Functions for Simple Features (Version 0.2-17) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lwgeom

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for lwgeom version 0.2-17 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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