R Observatory: Metrics for maps version 3.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

maps

3.4.3

Draw Geographical Maps

211packages depend

2.4Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alex DeckmynFirst published 2003-10-0792 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Display of maps. Projection code and larger maps are in separate packages ('mapproj' and 'mapdata').

Install

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

install.packages("maps", 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("adeckmyn/maps")

Development version from adeckmyn/maps. 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-maps

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-maps

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-maps

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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 · 990 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 85%
References docs: 52%

Downloads

2.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #218 · ~6.6K/day · ~202K/mo

Releases R versions

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185.6K30 days

703.3K90 days

2.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.5K r2u101 autocran189.8K conda_forge585 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ adeckmyn/maps

27Stars

10Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

254Commits

8Contributors

254 commits · Last activity 2026-06-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-06 · 252026-07-07 · 27

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/adeckmyn/maps on 2026-08-09.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

graphicsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

mapproj mapdata sf rnaturalearth

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

211direct

354indirect

and 163 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Alex Deckmyn

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.4.3

Authors (5)

Alex Deckmyn

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.4.3

Richard A. Becker

Author

Ray Brownrigg

Translator, Author · added in 3.4.3

Thomas P. Minka

Author

Allan R. Wilks

Author

Translators (1)

Ray Brownrigg

Translator, Author · added in 3.4.3

Listed in earlier versions (11)

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg Enhancements by Thomas P Minka <minka@stat.cmu.edu>

no longer listed · 2.0-3 to 2.0-18

Original S code by Richard A. Becker

no longer listed · 2.0-3 to 3.4.2.1

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg Enhancements by Thomas P Minka <surname@stat.cmu.edu>

no longer listed · 2.0-20 to 2.2-1

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg. Enhancements by Thomas P Minka <surname@stat.cmu.edu>.

no longer listed · 2.2-2 to 2.15.1

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg. Enhancements by Thomas P Minka <tpminka@media.mit.edu>

no longer listed · 2.2-8 to 2.3-11

Alex Deckmyn.

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 3.4.2.1

Allan R. Wilks. R version by Ray Brownrigg. Enhancements by Thomas P Minka

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 3.4.2.1

Alex Deckmyn. Fixes by the CRAN team.

no longer listed · 3.4.1.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2003-10-07
Total releases: 92 / 23 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 743 KB / 22 files
Download size: 2.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Deckmyn, A., Becker, R. A., Brownrigg, R., Minka, T. P., & Wilks, A. R. (2025). maps: Draw Geographical Maps (Version 3.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.maps

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for maps version 3.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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