R Observatory: Metrics for micromapST version 3.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

micromapST

3.1.1

Linked Micromap Plots for U. S. and Other Geographic Areas

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jim PearsonFirst published 2013-06-0517 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides the users with the ability to quickly create linked micromap plots for a collection of geographic areas. Linked micromap plots are visualizations of geo-referenced data that link statistical graphics to an organized series of small maps or graphic images. The Help description contains examples of how to use the 'micromapST' function. Contained in this package are border group datasets to support creating linked micromap plots for the 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia (51 areas), the U. S. 20 Seer Registries, the 105 counties in the state of Kansas, the 62 counties of New York, the 24 counties of Maryland, the 29 counties of Utah, the 32 administrative areas in China, the 218 administrative areas in the UK and Ireland (for testing only), the 25 districts in the city of Seoul South Korea, and the 52 counties on the Africa continent. A border group dataset contains the boundaries related to the data level areas, a second layer boundaries, a top or third layer boundary, a parameter list of run options, and a cross indexing table between area names, abbreviations, numeric identification and alias matching strings for the specific geographic area. By specifying a border group, the package create linked micromap plots for any geographic region. The user can create and provide their own border group dataset for any area beyond the areas contained within the package with the 'BuildBorderGroup' function. In April of 2022, it was announced that 'maptools', 'rgdal', and 'rgeos' R packages would be retired in middle to end of 2023 and removed from the CRAN libraries. The 'BuildBorderGroup' function was dependent on these packages. 'micromapST' functions were not impacted by the retired R packages. Upgrading of 'BuildBorderGroup' function was completed and released with version 3.0.0 on August 10, 2023 using the 'sf' R package. References: Carr and Pickle, Chapman and Hall/CRC, Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps, CRC Press, 2010. Pickle, Pearson, and Carr (2015), micromapST: Exploring and Communicating Geospatial Patterns in US State Data., Journal of Statistical Software, 63(3), 1-25., https://www.jstatsoft.org/v63/i03/. Copyrighted 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 by Carr, Pearson and Pickle.

Install

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

install.packages("micromapST", 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-micromapst

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-micromapST

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-micromapST

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

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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

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 15%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (14)

methodsgraphicsgrDevicesutilsstringr RColorBrewer labeling sf spdep rmapshapertoolsreadxl writexlstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Jim Pearson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Jim Pearson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Dan Carr

Author, Copyright holder

Contributors (1)

Linda Pickle

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.3

Copyright holders (3)

Jim Pearson

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Dan Carr

Author, Copyright holder

Linda Pickle

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.3

Listed in earlier versions (2)

with contributions from Linda Pickle.

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.1.1

James B Pearson

no longer listed · 1.0.5

Package Timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-06-05
Total releases: 17 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 192 KB / 31 files
Download size: 2.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Pearson, J., Carr, D., & Pickle, L. (2025). micromapST: Linked Micromap Plots for U. S. and Other Geographic Areas (Version 3.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.micromapST

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for micromapST version 3.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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