R Observatory: Metrics for photon version 1.0.0-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

photon

1.0.0-1Package record

High-Performance Geocoding using 'photon'

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

97.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonas LiethCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Features unstructured, structured and reverse geocoding using the 'photon' geocoding API https://photon.komoot.io/. Facilitates the setup of local 'photon' instances to enable offline geocoding.

Install

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

install.packages("photon", 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("jslth/photon")

Development version from jslth/photon. 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-photon

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-photon

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-photon

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-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-20
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-17
OK7 OK2026-04-11

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0-1

READMEYes · 238 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.0.0-1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 62%8 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition) · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Introduction to {photon HTML
Importing a database from Nominatim HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,191 · ~7/day · ~208/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33330 days

88490 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on101 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jslth/photon ↗Account: JsLth

7Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

294Commits

2Commit identities

rr-packagerstats

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 294 commits · Last activity 2026-03-01 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-06 · 52026-07-07 · 7

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jslth/photon on 2026-10-11.

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 (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-01, before release 1.0.0-1 (2026-04-10)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing photon adds 35 packages (24 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

utilscli countrycode httr2 R6 sf processx rvest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat tibble knitr rmarkdown webfakes ps

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)

Jonas Lieth

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-04-10
1.0.0-1Latest
record
2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-08
issues were not corrected even in re-submission
1.0.0
record
2026-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
download_searchindex

added 2 exports
download_database, list_regions
0.7.4-1
record
2026-01-17 · diff ↗
0.7.4
record
2025-10-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
with_photon
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.5
record
2025-02-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
latinize
0.3.1
record
2024-11-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-11
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Download size: 72 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("photon")

Format

Lieth, J. (2026). photon: High-Performance Geocoding using 'photon' (Version 1.0.0-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.photon

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 photon version 1.0.0-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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