R Observatory: Metrics for micromapST version 3.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

micromapST

3.1.1Package record

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

0packages depend

4.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jim PearsonCRAN 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. 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-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). 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: 3.6 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

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Documentation

In release 3.1.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 59includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 29%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 15%

Vignettes (1)

micromapST - Linked micromap builder for the US states PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,518 · ~13/day · ~406/mo

Releases R versions

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34030 days

1K90 days

4.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing micromapST adds 54 packages (34 with compiled code, 55 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, spdep 4.5 MB.

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

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Jim Pearson

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

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
3.1.1Latest
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2025-04-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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PlotVis

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Plot_Vis, ClnStrName_MST
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.0.1
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2022-09-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
PlotVis
2.0.0
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2022-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
BuildBorderGroup
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-04-30
1.1.3
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2022-04-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-12
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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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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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.1.1
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2016-12-08 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2016-12-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
micromapSTSetDefaults

added 4 exports
micromapSEER, micromapST.Version, micromapGSetDefaults, micromapGSetPanelDef
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2014-03-09 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2014-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
micromapSTDefaults
1.0.1
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2013-11-27 · diff ↗
1.0
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2013-06-05
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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

Cite

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citation("micromapST")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for micromapST version 3.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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