R Observatory: Metrics for mapgl version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mapgl

0.5.0

Interactive Maps with 'Mapbox GL JS' and 'MapLibre GL JS'

7packages depend

15.8Kdownloads / year

26.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kyle WalkerFirst published 2024-07-3117 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an interface to the 'Mapbox GL JS' (https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/guides) and the 'MapLibre GL JS' (https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/) interactive mapping libraries to help users create custom interactive maps in R. Users can create interactive globe visualizations; layer 'sf' objects to create filled maps, circle maps, 'heatmaps', and three-dimensional graphics; and customize map styles and views. The package also includes utilities to use 'Mapbox' and 'MapLibre' maps in 'Shiny' web applications.

Install

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

install.packages("mapgl", 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("walkerke/mapgl")

Development version from walkerke/mapgl. 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-mapgl

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-mapgl

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-mapgl

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

26.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

14

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 245 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 20%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

15.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,096 · ~43/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

4K90 days

15.8K1 year

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Also on991 r2u17 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ walkerke/mapgl

171Stars

24Forks

23Open issues

2Open PRs

2Releases

575Commits

14Contributors

575 commits · Last activity 2026-08-07 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 1292026-07-30 · 171

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/walkerke/mapgl on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Funding

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2025-05-19

claude

Most recent: claude on 2025-05-19

Evidence

claude: on 2025-05-19 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

htmlwidgets geojsonsf sf rlang htmltoolsgrDevicesbase64enc terra classInt shiny viridisLite png jsonlite httpuv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

chromote knitr mapboxapi testthat usethis leaflet

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

1indirect

r5rgui tmap.mapgl BLSloadR deckglgeoarrow freestiler osrm.backend spopt

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Kyle Walker

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Kyle Walker

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Egor Kotov

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Package Timeline

17 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.5.0Latest
2026-06-20 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.6
2026-04-14 · diff ↗
0.4.5
2026-03-06 · diff ↗
0.4.4
2026-01-12 · diff ↗
0.4.3
2025-11-20 · diff ↗
0.4.1
2025-09-22 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2025-08-18 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2025-07-17 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2025-07-03 · diff ↗
0.3
2025-06-16 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2025-05-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.1
2025-03-18 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-01-13 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2024-11-01 · diff ↗

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0.1.3
2024-09-04 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2024-08-17 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2024-07-31
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-31
Total releases: 17 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 35 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mapgl")

Format

Walker, K., & Kotov, E. (2026). mapgl: Interactive Maps with 'Mapbox GL JS' and 'MapLibre GL JS' (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mapgl

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mapgl version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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