R Observatory: Metrics for osmextract version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

osmextract

0.6.0Package record

Download and Import Open Street Map Data Extracts

1packages dependsuggested by 2

17.3Kdownloads / year

83.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea GilardiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 395 ↗

Match, download, convert and import Open Street Map data extracts obtained from several providers.

Changes in 0.6.0

MAJOR CHANGES

The default directory used to store .osm.pbf and .gpkg files downloaded or created by this package has changed from tempdir() to tools::R_user_dir("osmextract", "data") (#302).
Bump minimum R version to 4.1.0 because that's a requirement for one of our indirect dependencies (i.e. svglite). This also ensures that we can properly use tools::R_user_dir() since that function was introduced in R 4.0.0 (#302).
Updated the behaviour of oe_get() and related functions (oe_get_boundary(), oe_get_network(), ...) when a sf/sfc/bbox is provided as input for place. If boundary is not NA, it is automatically set to match place so only the relevant portion of the extract is processed (#313). Thanks to @juanfonsecaLS1.
The CONFIG file used by oe_vectortranslate is now always in synch with the one provided by sf or GDAL. A fall-back is provided in case of problems (#261).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("osmextract", 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("ropensci/osmextract")

Development version from ropensci/osmextract. 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-osmextract

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-osmextract

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-osmextract

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: 2.9 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
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 81%13 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

Introducing osmextract HTML
Add new OpenStreetMap providers HTML
Comparing the supported OSM providers HTML
tips-and-tricks HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

17.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,247 · ~47/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

3.6K90 days

17.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on223 r2u8 autocran141 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/osmextract ↗Organization: ropensci

195Stars

16Forks

29Open issues

2Open PRs

12Releases

1,188Commits

11Commit identities

osmosm-pbfrstatsropen-datageofabrik-zonegeo

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,188 commits · Last activity 2026-10-18 · -0.5% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0, ahead of CRAN 0.6.0 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 13 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 45
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-22 · 1792026-09-22 · 195

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

17 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/osmextract on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and macOS

Governance and community (4)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-05

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Dev Container

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-04-10
Commits: 2 by its own account

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing osmextract adds 17 packages (14 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

sfutilstoolshttr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown covr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

maposm

Suggests, most downloaded first

GTFShift slopes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Andrea Gilardi

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2021)

Robin Lovelace

Author

Barry Rowlingson

Contributor

Salva Fernández

Reviewer

Salva reviewed the package (v. 0.1) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/395>

Nicholas Potter

Reviewer

Nicholas reviewed the package (v. 0.1) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/395>

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0Latest
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2026-04-14 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_default_osmconf_ini
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.3
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2025-04-09 · diff ↗
0.5.2
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2024-11-22 · diff ↗
0.5.1
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2024-04-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.0
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2023-08-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
oe_clean, oe_get_boundary, read_poly
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.1
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2022-08-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.0
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2021-10-27 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2021-07-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
oe_get_network
0.3.0
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2021-06-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
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2021-02-15 · diff ↗

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0.2.0
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2021-02-11
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-11
Total releases: 11 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.3 MB / 4 files
Download size: 3.4 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("osmextract")

Format

Gilardi, A., Fernández, S., Lovelace, R., Potter, N., & Rowlingson, B. (2026). osmextract: Download and Import Open Street Map Data Extracts (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.osmextract

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for osmextract version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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