R Observatory: Metrics for mwmap version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mwmap

1.0.0Package record

Create Maps of Malawi Administrative Boundaries

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

33.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chifundo BitaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a tidy, high-level interface for creating polished maps of Malawi at country, region, district, and Traditional Authority level. Functions handle spatial data retrieval, administrative-name matching, joins from ordinary data frames, numeric and categorical choropleths, labels, highlights, and professional 'ggplot2' styling. Spatial boundary data are provided by the companion package 'mwmapdata'.

Changes in 1.0.0

Reworked the package around a tidy, level-aware mapping API.
mw_map() now handles country, region, district, and Traditional Authority maps through one consistent interface.
mw_join() now joins by the correct administrative unit for each level and reports unmatched names with suggestions.
Added mw_get_map() for direct access to filtered boundary data.
Added mw_tas() for listing Traditional Authorities by region or district.
mw_ta_map() now supports numeric and categorical fills joined by TA name.
Improved default map styling, fills, legends, labels, district outlines, and highlight layers.
Updated the package to depend on mwmapdata >= 1.0.0.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mwmap", 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("bitacanalytics/mwmap")

Development version from bitacanalytics/mwmap. 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-mwmap

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-mwmap

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-mwmap

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-05-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 30%6 run in a plain check · 14 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,909 · ~5/day · ~138/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28730 days

74490 days

1.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on22 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bitacanalytics/mwmap ↗Account: bitacanalytics

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

3Commits

1Commit identities

3 commits · Last activity 2026-05-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-04-10 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmap on 2026-10-18.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mwmap adds 35 packages (20 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mwmapdata 13 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (9)

dplyr ggplot2gridmwmapdatagrDevicesrlang sftoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ggrepel ggspatial plotly knitr rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Chifundo Bita

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

1.0.0Latest
record
2026-05-12 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 29 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mwmap")

Format

Bita, C. (2026). mwmap: Create Maps of Malawi Administrative Boundaries (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mwmap

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mwmap version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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