R Observatory: Metrics for mapsapi version 0.5.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mapsapi

0.5.4Package record

'sf'-Compatible Interface to 'Google Maps' APIs

0packages dependsuggested by 1

8.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael DormanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Interface to the 'Google Maps' APIs: (1) routing directions based on the 'Directions' API, returned as 'sf' objects, either as single feature per alternative route, or a single feature per segment per alternative route; (2) travel distance or time matrices based on the 'Distance Matrix' API; (3) geocoded locations based on the 'Geocode' API, returned as 'sf' objects, either points or bounds; (4) map images using the 'Maps Static' API, returned as 'stars' objects.

Changes in 0.5.4

New options in 'mp_map' (by Rodrigo Vega)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mapsapi", 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("michaeldorman/mapsapi")

Development version from michaeldorman/mapsapi. 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-mapsapi

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-mapsapi

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-mapsapi

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.5.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 93%13 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 27%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to package `mapsapi`

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,554 · ~22/day · ~673/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53630 days

1.3K90 days

8.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u6 autocran156 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

michaeldorman/mapsapi ↗Account: michaeldorman

56Stars

14Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

74Commits

6Commit identities

74 commits · Last activity 2023-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 542026-07-07 · 56

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/michaeldorman/mapsapi on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-07-23

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mapsapi adds 25 packages (19 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, stars 3.8 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

xml2 sf bitops stars RgoogleMaps httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown leaflet ggplot2 dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

stplanr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Michael Dorman

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Mihir Bhaskar

Contributor · added in 0.4.2

Tom Buckley

Contributor · added in 0.3.5

Alex Dannenberg

Contributor · added in 0.3.9

Juan P. Fonseca-Zamora

Contributor · added in 0.4.9

Rodrigo Vega

Contributor · added in 0.5.4

Releases (17)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-07-21 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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2020-06-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.5
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2020-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mp_map
0.4.2
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2019-09-07 · diff ↗

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0.4.1
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2019-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-11-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
extract_matrix, extract_routes, extract_segments, google_directions, google_matrix

added 8 exports
mp_directions, mp_geocode, mp_get_bounds, mp_get_matrix, mp_get_points, mp_get_routes, mp_get_segments, mp_matrix
0.1.0
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2017-09-27
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-27
Total releases: 17 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 313 KB / 5 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

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Format

Dorman, M., Bhaskar, M., Buckley, T., Dannenberg, A., P. Fonseca-Zamora, J., & Vega, R. (2023). mapsapi: 'sf'-Compatible Interface to 'Google Maps' APIs (Version 0.5.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mapsapi

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mapsapi version 0.5.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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