R Observatory: Metrics for mapdata version 2.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mapdata

2.3.1

Extra Map Databases

21packages depend

161.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alex DeckmynFirst published 2003-10-0748 releasesCRAN page ↗

Supplement to maps package, providing some larger and/or higher-resolution databases. NOTE: this is a legacy package. The world map is out-dated.

Install

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

install.packages("mapdata", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mapdata

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-mapdata

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-mapdata

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

161.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,197 · ~443/day · ~13.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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8.3K30 days

28.6K90 days

161.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.6K r2u14 autocran6.9K conda_forge211 c2d4u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.14.0maps

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

21direct

1indirect

M3 RchivalTag ausplotsR etasFLP oceanmap naijR plotdap remote FDboost RGraphics anim.plots bamlss climatol embryogrowth ggfortify gstat maps marmap rerddapXtracto spacetime stars

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (3)

Original S code by Richard A. Becker

no longer listed · 2.0-2 to 2.3.1

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg

no longer listed · 2.0-2 to 2.14.1

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg.

no longer listed · 2.2-1 to 2.3.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2003-10-07
Total releases: 48 / 23 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Bundled data: 0.7 KB / 8 files
Download size: 13 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mapdata version 2.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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