R Observatory: Metrics for malariaAtlas version 1.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

malariaAtlas

1.7.0Package record

An R Interface to Open-Access Malaria Data, Hosted by the 'Malaria Atlas Project'

0packages depend

10.6Kdownloads / year

77.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio van den BergCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A suite of tools to allow you to download all publicly available parasite rate survey points, mosquito occurrence points and raster surfaces from the 'Malaria Atlas Project' https://malariaatlas.org/ servers as well as utility functions for plotting the downloaded data.

Install

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

install.packages("malariaAtlas", 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("malaria-atlas-project/malariaAtlas")

Development version from malaria-atlas-project/malariaAtlas. 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-malariaatlas

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-malariaAtlas

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-malariaAtlas

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: 6.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 OK2026-04-16

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-13
OK14 OK2026-04-04
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-01
OK14 OK2026-03-26
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7.0

READMEYes · 858 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.7.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 64 (25 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 4%1 run in a plain check · 26 never run
Exported functions with examples: 84%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 76%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (1)

Basic malariaAtlas usage HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

10.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,952 · ~29/day · ~883/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.3K90 days

10.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on147 r2u7 autocran64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

malaria-atlas-project/malariaatlas ↗Organization: malaria-atlas-project

52Stars

23Forks

15Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

1,062Commits

16Commit identities

malariaopendatadatabaserasterr

1,062 commits · Last activity 2026-03-30 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.7.0.9999, ahead of CRAN 1.7.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 492026-07-07 · 52

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/malaria-atlas-project/malariaatlas on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitLab CITravis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing malariaAtlas adds 75 packages (45 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

ggplot2

Imports (19)

xml2 gridExtra httr dplyr tidyrmethodsstatsutilsrlang sf lifecycle terra tidyterra ows4R future.apply lubridate jsonlite stringr ggnewscale

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat knitr rmarkdown palettetown magrittr tibble rdhs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Mauricio van den Berg

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2023) · added in 1.2.0

Harry Gibson

Author

Suzanne Keddie

Author · added in 0.0.2

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 0.0.4

Nick Golding

Contributor

David Smith

Contributor

Previously maintained by Tim Lucas (0.0.1 to 1.0.1).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Sarah Connor

no longer listed · 1.2.0 to 1.6.3

Releases (14)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-08-26
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-08-20
repeated policy violation On Internet access, Most recently #Error ('test_extractRaster.R:205:3'): Output in same order as input ───────── #Error in `names(namespaces) <- rep("", length(namespaces))`: Failed to connect to MAP geoserver
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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1.5.0
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2023-10-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
listPRPointCountries, listPRPointVersions, listShpVersions, listVecOccPointCountries, listVecOccPointVersions
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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
1.0.1
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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fillDHSCoordinates
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-10-31 · diff ↗
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added 6 exports
as.pr.points, as.vectorpoints, getVecOcc, isAvailable_pr, isAvailable_vec, listSpecies
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.0.1
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-10
Total releases: 14 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.9 MB

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Epidemiology

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("malariaAtlas")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1186/s12936-018-2500-5.

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 malariaAtlas version 1.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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