R Observatory: Metrics for ows4R version 0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ows4R

0.5Package record

Interface to OGC Web-Services (OWS)

4packages dependsuggested by 1

15.2Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Emmanuel BlondelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides an Interface to Web-Services defined as standards by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), including Web Feature Service (WFS) for vector data, Web Coverage Service (WCS), Catalogue Service (CSW) for ISO/OGC metadata, Web Processing Service (WPS) for data processes, and associated standards such as the common web-service specification (OWS) and OGC Filter Encoding. Partial support is provided for the Web Map Service (WMS). The purpose is to add support for additional OGC service standards such as Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS), the Sensor Observation Service (SOS), or even new standard services emerging such OGC API or SensorThings.

Changes in 0.5

**Corrections**

#129 WFS FeatureType missing control to inherit element type

**Enhancements**

#130 WFS 2.0 - Support count parameter in case maxFeatures is used
#131 WFS Add additional controls for WFS feature type validation
#134 WCS 1.x - support automatic inheritance of WIDTH/HEIGHT parameters
#135 Exception handling - Start tag expected, '<' not found is returned for vector responses

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ows4R", 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("eblondel/ows4R")

Development version from eblondel/ows4R. 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-ows4r

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-ows4R

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-ows4R

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: 25.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5

READMEYes · 460 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 98includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 78%21 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 28%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

15.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,679 · ~42/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

2.7K90 days

15.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on186 r2u4 autocran205 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eblondel/ows4r ↗Account: eblondel

41Stars

9Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

545Commits

4Commit identities

ogcowswfscswfesisosdispatial

545 commits · Last activity 2026-10-01 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5-1, ahead of CRAN 0.5 (checked 2026-10-25) · Discussions: 23 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 56%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-22 · 402026-07-07 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eblondel/ows4r on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-01

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ows4R adds 47 packages (33 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (11)

methodsR6 httr openssl keyring XML geometa sf terraparallelcrayon

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr markdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

malariaAtlas geoflow emodnet.wfs land4health

Suggests, most downloaded first

mregions2

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Emmanuel Blondel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2018)

Alexandre Bennici

Contributor · added in 0.2

Norbert Billet

Contributor

Releases (17)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5Latest
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2025-06-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4
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2024-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
OWSException
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-09-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-04-13 · diff ↗
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2023-03-11 · diff ↗
0.3-3
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2023-01-12 · diff ↗
0.3-2
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2022-11-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
WCSGSElevationDomain, WCSGSTimeDomain
0.3-1
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2022-09-04 · diff ↗
0.3
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2022-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
CASClient, WCSCapabilities, WCSClient, WCSCoverage, WCSCoverageDescription, WCSCoverageDomain, WCSCoverageFilenameHandler, WCSCoverageSpatialDomain, WCSCoverageSummary, WCSCoverageTemporalDomain, WCSDescribeCoverage, WCSGSElevationDomain, WCSGSTimeDomain, WCSGetCoverage, WCSGridCRS
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-01-27 · diff ↗
0.2
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 37 exports
OWSBoundingBox, OWSCodeType, OWSHttpRequest, OWSNamespace, OWSWGS84BoundingBox, WMSCapabilities, WMSClient, WMSGetFeatureInfo, WMSLayer, WPSBoundingBoxData, WPSCapabilities, WPSClient, WPSComplexData, WPSComplexInputDescription, WPSComplexOutputDescription, WPSDescribeProcess, WPSDescriptionParameter, WPSException, WPSExecute, WPSExecuteResponse, WPSFormat, WPSInput, WPSInputDescription, WPSLiteralData, WPSLiteralInputDescription, WPSLiteralOutputDescription, WPSOutput, WPSOutputDescription, WPSParameter, WPSProcess and 7 more

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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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2019-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-09-01
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-01
Total releases: 17 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 171 KB

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Analysis of Spatial Data Web Technologies and Services

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Format

Blondel, E., Bennici, A., & Billet, N. (2025). ows4R: Interface to OGC Web-Services (OWS) (Version 0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ows4R

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ows4R version 0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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