R Observatory: Metrics for r5r version 2.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

r5r

2.4.0Package record

Rapid Realistic Routing with 'R5'

1packages dependsuggested by 1

15.1Kdownloads / year

91.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rafael H. M. PereiraCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto and Ipea - Institute for Applied Economic Research

Rapid realistic routing on multimodal transport networks (walk, bike, public transport and car) using 'R5', the Rapid Realistic Routing on Real-world and Reimagined networks engine https://github.com/conveyal/r5. The package allows users to generate detailed routing analysis or calculate travel time and monetary cost matrices using seamless parallel computing on top of the R5 Java machine. While R5 is developed by Conveyal, the package r5r is independently developed by a team at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) with contributions from collaborators. Apart from the documentation in this package, users will find additional information on R5 documentation at https://docs.conveyal.com/. Although we try to keep new releases of r5r in synchrony with R5, the development of R5 follows Conveyal's independent update process. Hence, users should confirm the R5 version implied by the Conveyal user manual (see https://docs.conveyal.com/changelog) corresponds with the R5 version that r5r depends on. This version of r5r depends on R5 v7.1.

Changes in 2.4.0

**Major changes**

Using new version of R5 v7.5.1. Closed #373

and #970

The isochrone() function has gone through major changes which substantially

improved polygon-based isochrones. The function now builds on top of a travel

time surface that uses a regular grid of points across the network (specifically

a grid of Web Mercator pixels) and then uses the marching squares algorithm to

generate the isochrone polygons. See detailed in the updated vignette. Closed

#455 and Closed #495.

New support function get_gtfs_errors() to help diagnose eventual errors in

the GTFS data that prevent building the network. Closed #431 and #541.

**Minor changes**

Show all changes in 2.4.0Hide the rest of the changes in 2.4.0

New support function check_transit_availability() that checks the number and

proportion of public transport services from the GTFS feeds that are active on

specified dates.

New support function street_network_bbox() that efficiently extracts the

geographic bounding box of the transport network.

More informative messages in case of Java error in R5. Closed #515.
When direct routing fails the log now mentions the name of the origin and

destination points to help the user debug. Closed #519.

**Bug fixes**

Revert back the order of origins destinations for Direct Modes. Fix implemented

in travel_time_matrix(), arrival_travel_time_matrix() and expanded_travel_time_matrix().

Closes #501.

Reverse search optimization is now only applicable to walking. Closes #517.
r5r now uses walking speed from request location to snapped point on the road

network. This was a fix upstream in R5. Closed #373

Elevation data does not affect carspeeds anymore. This was a fix upstream in

R5. Closed #970

Fixed a bug that was introduced in r5r {2.3.0} and which led to ignore elevation

when building the network. Closed #555.

Elevation data is still ignored when creating scenarios of LTS, but this is a know

bug that will throw warning messages while we work a way to fix it in a future

update.

**New contributors to r5r**

Egor Kotov

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("r5r", 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("ipeaGIT/r5r")

Development version from ipeaGIT/r5r. 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-r5r

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-r5r

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-r5r

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: 2.5 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 NOTE2026-04-06
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-04
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.4.0

READMEYes · 7 wordsVignettesYes · 10 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.4.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 71 (49 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check (24 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (10)

Intro to r5r: Rapid Realistic Routing with R5 in R HTML
Accessibility HTML
Accounting for monetary costs HTML
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions HTML
Isochrones HTML
Trade-offs between travel time and monetary cost HTML
Travel time matrices HTML
Trip planning with detailed_itineraries() HTML
Using custom OSM car speeds and LTS HTML
Using the time_window parameter HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

15.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,460 · ~41/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3K30 days

3.1K90 days

15.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on219 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ipea/r5r ↗Organization: ipea

Moved from ipeagit/r5r.

244Stars

36Forks

24Open issues

7Open PRs

21Releases

2,496Commits

22Commit identities

rtransportroutingtransport-networksr5javaroutergtfs

2,496 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 64
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-15 · 2132026-10-15 · 244

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ipeagit/r5r 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)

Issue templates

Docs source (2)

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

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-09-21
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/agents, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.local.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 10 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 2 from outside contributors, first on 2026-09-28

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.510 commits · Sep to Oct 2026

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

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing r5r adds 26 packages (23 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (14)

checkmate cli data.table isoband jsonlite lifecyclemethodspurrr rJava rlang sf sfheadersutilszip

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

accessibility covr dplyr fs ggplot2 gtfstools h3jsr interp knitr mapviewparallelpatchwork rJavaEnv rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

r5rgui

Suggests, most downloaded first

spopt

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway

Author · added in 2.0

Daniel Herszenhut

Author

Alex Magnus

Author · added in 2.2.0

Marcus Saraiva

Author

Carlos Kaue Vieira Braga

Contributor

Egor Kotov

Contributor · added in 2.4.0

Luyu Liu

Contributor · added in 2.0

Daniel Snow

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Ipea - Institute for Applied Economic Research

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.6.0

Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto

Funder · added in 2.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.5.0

Matthew Wigginton Conway

no longer listed · 0.3-0 to 1.1.0

Releases (21)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

2.4.0Latest
record
2026-05-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
check_transit_availability, get_gtfs_errors, street_network_bbox
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.0
record
2025-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
arrival_travel_time_matrix, build_network
2.2.0
record
2025-05-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.1.0
record
2025-03-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0
record
2024-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
r5r_cache
1.1.0
record
2023-08-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
isochrone
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.1
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2023-03-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2023-01-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
expanded_travel_time_matrix, pareto_frontier, r5r_sitrep, read_fare_structure, setup_fare_structure, write_fare_structure
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-06
0.7.1
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2022-07-06 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-07-04
no response to request to replace 'akima' by 'interp'
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.7.0
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2022-02-11 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2021-10-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
transit_network_to_sf
0.5.0
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2021-07-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
accessibility, find_snap
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-04-16
0.4.0
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2021-04-16 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-14
policy violation on Internet access
0.3-3
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2021-03-09 · diff ↗
0.3-2
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2021-01-08 · diff ↗
0.3-1
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2021-01-07 · diff ↗
0.3-0
record
2021-01-05 · diff ↗
0.2-1
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2020-11-30 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-10-20
0.2-0
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2020-10-20 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-10-03
check issues were not corrected in time Installation timeouts -- as shown for ATLAS
0.1-1
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2020-09-25 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2020-09-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-18
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 3.0 MB

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("r5r")

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

It points to 10.32866/001c.21262.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for r5r version 2.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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