R Observatory: Metrics for randgeo version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

randgeo

0.3.0Package record

Generate Random 'WKT' or 'GeoJSON'

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generate random positions (latitude/longitude), Well-known text ('WKT') points or polygons, or 'GeoJSON' points or polygons.

Changes in 0.3.0

NEW FEATURES

Gains geo_linestring and wkt_linestring (#13) thanks to @samuelbosch
All geo_* functions output lists - they all gain a S3 class geo_list to be in line with geojsonio outputs

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

fix placement of image used in readme that's CRAN compliant

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("randgeo", 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("ropensci/randgeo")

Development version from ropensci/randgeo. 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-randgeo

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-randgeo

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-randgeo

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus@gmail.com>’

Found the following (possibly) invalid file URI:
  URI: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
    From: README.md

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 56 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 297 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the randgeo package

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,183 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24730 days

63390 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci-archive/randgeo ↗Organization: ropensci-archiveArchived

Moved from ropensci/randgeo.

8Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

80Commits

8Commit identities

geojsonwktrstatsrr-package

80 commits · Last activity 2022-09-09 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.1.91, ahead of CRAN 0.3.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2019-12-20 · 82026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/randgeo 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 conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2018-05-18

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing randgeo adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Samuel Bosch

Author · added in 0.3.0

Noam Ross

Author · added in 0.2.0

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
0.3.0Latest
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2018-05-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
geo_linestring, wkt_linestring
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-02-28 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-18
Total releases: 3 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 635 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("randgeo")

Format

Chamberlain, S., Bosch, S., & Ross, N. (2018). randgeo: Generate Random 'WKT' or 'GeoJSON' (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.randgeo

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 randgeo version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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