R Observatory: Metrics for mapplots version 1.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mapplots

1.5.3Package record

Data Visualisation on Maps

1packages depend

11.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hans GerritsenCRAN page ↗

Create simple maps; add sub-plots like pie plots to a map or any other plot; format, plot and export gridded data. The package was developed for displaying fisheries data but most functions can be used for more generic data visualisation.

Changes in 1.5.3

Fixed bug in ices.rect() and ices.rect2() which now returns NA for ICES rectangles that do not exist

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mapplots", 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-mapplots

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-mapplots

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-mapplots

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: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-10
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.5.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 26includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%21 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 19%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,372 · ~33/day · ~995/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69230 days

1.9K90 days

11.9K1 year

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Also on187 r2u10 autocran2.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mapplots adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

shapefiles

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

gbm.auto

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Hans Gerritsen

Author, Maintainer since at least 1.2 (2012)

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-06-26
Total releases: 7 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 212 KB / 3 files
Download size: 252 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mapplots")

Format

Gerritsen, H. (2025). mapplots: Data Visualisation on Maps (Version 1.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mapplots

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 mapplots version 1.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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