R Observatory: Metrics for plainview version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plainview

0.2.2Package record

Plot Raster Images Interactively on a Plain HTML Canvas

0packages dependsuggested by 2

37.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim AppelhansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides methods for plotting potentially large (raster) images interactively on a plain HTML canvas. In contrast to package 'mapview' data are plotted without background map, but data can be projected to any spatial coordinate reference system. Supports plotting of classes 'RasterLayer', 'RasterStack', 'RasterBrick' (from package 'raster') as well as 'png' files located on disk. Interactivity includes zooming, panning, and mouse location information. In case of multi-layer 'RasterStacks' or 'RasterBricks', RGB image plots are created (similar to 'raster::plotRGB' - but interactive).

Changes in 0.2.2

💬 documentation etc

add proper package anchors to .Rd files.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("plainview", 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("r-spatial/plainview")

Development version from r-spatial/plainview. 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-plainview

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-plainview

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-plainview

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: 5.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 139 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

37.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,520 · ~102/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.4K30 days

6.4K90 days

37.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on113 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-spatial/plainview ↗Organization: r-spatial

13Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

60Commits

5Commit identities

60 commits · Last activity 2025-08-19

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-06-11 · 132026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-spatial/plainview on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-19

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plainview adds 32 packages (19 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sp 4.3 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10methods

Imports (6)

htmltools htmlwidgetslatticepng raster viridisLite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

shiny sf sp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

leafem mapview

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Tim Appelhans

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019), Author

Stefan Woellauer

Author

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.1
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-22
Total releases: 5 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 268 KB / 1 file
Download size: 639 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("plainview")

Format

Appelhans, T., & Woellauer, S. (2025). plainview: Plot Raster Images Interactively on a Plain HTML Canvas (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.plainview

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 plainview version 0.2.2 [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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