R Observatory: Metrics for orbis version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

orbis

0.1.0Package record

Interactive and High-Resolution Layered Graphics with Built-in World Maps

0packages depend

654downloads / year

85.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Muhammad FarooqiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A layered grammar of graphics that compiles plots to a resolution-independent scene description and renders it through two back-ends: a self-contained SVG writer with embedded 'JavaScript' for interactive figures (tooltips, hover highlighting, zoom, pan and legend toggling) and R's own graphics devices for publication-quality output at any resolution. Geographic layers are first class: a simplified world polygon dataset ships with the package and can be drawn with several map projections, including Robinson, Equal Earth and an orthographic globe. The layered grammar follows Wickham (2010) doi:10.1198/jcgs.2009.07098; projections follow Snyder (1987) doi:10.3133/pp1395 and, for Equal Earth, Savric, Patterson and Jenny (2019) doi:10.1080/13658816.2018.1504949; line simplification uses Douglas and Peucker (1973) doi:10.3138/FM57-6770-U75U-7727; the default colour scales follow the guidance on perceptually uniform palettes of Crameri, Shephard and Heron (2020) doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7.

Changes in 0.1.0

First release.

A layered grammar (orb() plus +) that compiles to a resolution-independent scene description, rendered either as interactive SVG or through R's graphics devices at any resolution.
Layers: orb_points(), orb_line(), orb_bars(), orb_area(), orb_text().
Faceting with orb_facet(), with shared or free scales.
Geography built in: orb_map(), orb_geo_points(), orb_worldmap(), the world_map dataset, and six projections via orb_coord_map(), including the equal-area Equal Earth projection and an orthographic globe.
Scales, four themes and perceptually uniform palettes.
Output with orb_save() (SVG, HTML, PDF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG), orb_svg(), orb_interactive() and orb_draw().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("orbis", 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("mqfarooqi1/orbis")

Development version from mqfarooqi1/orbis. 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-orbis

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-orbis

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-orbis

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: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK8 OK2026-08-06

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 682 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 24 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%23 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with orbis HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

654

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,222 · ~2/day · ~55/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22530 days

65490 days

6541 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mqfarooqi1/orbis ↗Account: mqfarooqi1

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

16Commits

1Commit identities

16 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-08-05 · 02026-10-05 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mqfarooqi1/orbis on 2026-10-21.

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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-21

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dockerfile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing orbis adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 1.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, digest 231 KB, htmltools 132 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

grDevicesgridstatsutilshtmltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr rmarkdown spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Muhammad Farooqi

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
record
first seen 2026-08-05 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-08-05
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 136 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("orbis")

Format

Farooqi, M. (2026). orbis: Interactive and High-Resolution Layered Graphics with Built-in World Maps (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.orbis

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 orbis version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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