R Observatory: Metrics for mapview version 2.11.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mapview

2.11.4Package record

Interactive Viewing of Spatial Data in R

10packages dependsuggested by 43

334.9Kdownloads / year

41.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim AppelhansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Quickly and conveniently create interactive visualisations of spatial data with or without background maps. Attributes of displayed features are fully queryable via pop-up windows. Additional functionality includes methods to visualise true- and false-color raster images and bounding boxes.

Install

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

install.packages("mapview", 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("r-spatial/mapview")

Development version from r-spatial/mapview. 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-mapview

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-mapview

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-mapview

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: 9.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.11.4

READMEYes · 419 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.11.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 21includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 78%7 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 9%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

334.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #714 · ~918/day · ~27.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35.2K30 days

72.8K90 days

334.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.5K r2u7 autocran6.3K conda_forge180 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-spatial/mapview ↗Organization: r-spatial

554Stars

96Forks

102Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

1,877Commits

36Commit identities

rleafletvisualizationweb-mappinggismapsspatial

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,877 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 76%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-08 · 5282026-09-25 · 554

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-spatial/mapview on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-09-05, before release 2.11.4 (2025-09-08)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

28 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mapview adds 71 packages (43 with compiled code, 71 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0methods

Imports (14)

base64enc htmltools htmlwidgetslatticeleafem leaflet leafpop png raster satellite scales servr sf sp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

knitr later leaflet.extras2 leafsync lwgeom mapdeck plainview poorman rmarkdown rstudioapi s2 stars tinytest webshot webshot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

6indirect

Imports 10

Suggested by 43

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mapedit CARBayes mgwrsar crsuggest covid19sf misc RuHere skytrackr streetscape sta

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 5 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (14)

Tim Appelhans

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2015), Author

Florian Detsch

Author

Christoph Reudenbach

Author

Stefan Woellauer

Author

Environmental Informatics Marburg

Contributor

Lorenzo Busetto

Contributor · added in 2.7.8

Jochen Darley

Contributor · added in 2.4.0

Spaska Forteva

Contributor

Thomas Nauss

Contributor

Edzer Pebesma

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Pierre Roudier

Contributor · added in 2.4.0

Kenton Russell

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

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Patrick Schratz

Contributor · added in 2.6.0

Michael Sumner

Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Releases (20)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.11.4Latest
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2025-09-08 · current release · diff ↗
2.11.3
record
2025-08-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
knit_print.mapview
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.11.2
record
2023-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mapshot2
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.11.0
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2022-04-17 · diff ↗
2.10.0
record
2021-06-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.9.0
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2020-08-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 26 exports
addExtent, addFeatures, addHomeButton, addImageQuery, addLogo, addMouseCoordinates, addStarsImage, addStaticLabels, cubeView, cubeViewOutput, cubeview, garnishMap, latticeView, latticeview, plainView, plainview, popupGraph, popupImage, popupTable, removeHomeButton, removeMouseCoordinates, renderCubeView, renderslideView, slideViewOutput, slideview, sync

added 1 export
removeMapJunk
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.7.8
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2020-04-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
coords2JSON, coords2Lines, coords2Polygons

added 4 exports
mapviewWatcher, startWatching, stopWatching, viewRGB
2.7.0
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2019-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
renderslideView, slideViewOutput
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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2.6.3
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2018-12-20 · diff ↗
2.6.0
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2018-09-16 · diff ↗
2.5.0
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2018-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
addMapPane

added 2 exports
addStarsImage, removeMouseCoordinates
2.4.0
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2018-04-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
addLargeFeatures, addStarsImage

added 2 exports
addMapPane, addStaticLabels
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.3.0
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2018-01-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
addImageQuery, addStarsImage
2.2.0
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2017-11-02 · diff ↗
2.1.4
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2017-07-29 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2017-06-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
addFeatures
2.0.1
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2017-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
mapView, pointData.sf, polygonData.sf, rgb2spLayout

added 4 exports
addExtent, addLargeFeatures, cubeview, npts
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.0
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2016-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
addHomeButton, addLogo, garnishMap, pointData.sf, polygonData.sf, removeHomeButton
1.1.0
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2016-06-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
mapviewTheme, spplot, viewRGB

added 16 exports
addMouseCoordinates, coords2Lines, coords2Polygons, cubeView, cubeViewOutput, knit_print.mapview, latticeView, latticeview, mapshot, mapviewOutput, popupGraph, popupImage, popupTable, renderCubeView, renderMapview, sync
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.0
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2015-12-15
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-15
Total releases: 20 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 535 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.6 MB

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mapview")

Format

Appelhans, T., Environmental Informatics Marburg, Busetto, L., Darley, J., Detsch, F., Forteva, S., Nauss, T., Pebesma, E., Reudenbach, C., Roudier, P., Russell, K., Schratz, P., Sumner, M., & Woellauer, S. (2025). mapview: Interactive Viewing of Spatial Data in R (Version 2.11.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mapview

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mapview version 2.11.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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