R Observatory: Metrics for osrm.backend version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

osrm.backend

0.4.1Package record

Bindings for 'Open Source Routing Machine'

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

36.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Egor KotovCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Install and control 'Open Source Routing Machine' ('OSRM') backend executables to prepare routing data and run/stop a local 'OSRM' server. For computations with the running server use the 'osrm' package for 'R' (https://cran.r-project.org/package=osrm).

Changes in 0.4.1

Bug fixes

Replaced network-dependent unit tests with deterministic offline tests, so R CMD check now succeeds without internet access or GitHub API availability.
osrm_install() now validates the manual install arguments file_path and download_url first. A missing, unreadable or malformed value fails immediately, before any version resolution, destination directory creation or GitHub request.
Manual installations from file_path or download_url no longer contact GitHub to resolve or verify a version, and no longer apply the macOS compatibility check, since neither applies to a user supplied archive.
The GitHub API client gained an explicit request timeout, a bounded retry budget and accurate response classification. A primary rate limit response, meaning HTTP 403 with X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0, now fails at once and reports when the limit resets and how to set GITHUB_PAT, instead of retrying four times. API errors again say which request failed.
Installing a manual archive that lacks Lua profiles no longer fails with an internal error when a non-default binary provider is selected. It now reports that profiles cannot be fetched for a manual archive.

Breaking changes

osrm_install() rejects file_path and download_url supplied together instead of silently preferring file_path.
Because a manual archive is never resolved against a release, its OSRM version is unknown. When dest_dir is NULL, such an archive is now installed into a subdirectory named manual rather than one named after a version looked up online, and supplementary v6 runtime libraries are not installed automatically. Passing an explicit version tag alongside the archive restores both behaviours without any network lookup.

Internal

Declared the existing minimum requirement of R (>= 3.5.0) in DESCRIPTION.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("osrm.backend", 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("e-kotov/osrm.backend")

Development version from e-kotov/osrm.backend. 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-osrm.backend

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-osrm.backend

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-osrm.backend

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-07-12
OK14 OK2026-04-16
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 547 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 22 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 5%1 run in a plain check (under a condition) · 18 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,859 · ~10/day · ~303/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34930 days

92090 days

3.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on102 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

e-kotov/osrm.backend ↗Account: e-kotov

8Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

234Commits

3Commit identities

osmosrmrrouting

234 commits · Last activity 2026-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-11-12 · 12026-07-11 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

18 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/e-kotov/osrm.backend 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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-17

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-11-25
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: some crediting it in the message, count not recorded

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing osrm.backend adds 18 packages (13 with compiled code, 7.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: viridisLite 1.2 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

digest httr2 jsonlite lifecycle processx ps viridisLite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

DT knitr mapgl osrm rmarkdown sf shiny testthat (>= 3.0.0)tibble withr

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)

Egor Kotov

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.1Latest
record
2026-09-05 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.0
record
2026-04-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
osrm_validated_versions
0.3.1
record
2026-04-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
record
2026-04-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
osrm_get_server_profile, osrm_gui
0.2.0
record
2026-02-06 · diff ↗
0.1.1
record
2025-12-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
2025-12-03
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-03
Total releases: 7 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("osrm.backend")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.osrm.backend, 10.21105/joss.04574.

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 osrm.backend version 0.4.1 [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.

Report a problem with this page →