R Observatory: Metrics for rayshader version 0.41.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rayshader

0.41.2

Create Maps and Visualize Data in 2D and 3D

1packages dependsuggested by 4

32.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tyler Morgan-WallCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Uses a combination of raytracing and multiple hill shading methods to produce 2D and 3D data visualizations and maps. Includes water detection and layering functions, programmable color palette generation, several built-in textures for hill shading, 2D and 3D plotting options, a built-in path tracer, 'Wavefront' OBJ file export, and the ability to save 3D visualizations to a 3D printable format.

Install

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

install.packages("rayshader", 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("tylermorganwall/rayshader")

Development version from tylermorganwall/rayshader. 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-rayshader

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-rayshader

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-rayshader

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: 5.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-13
OK13 OK2026-06-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.41.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.41.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 116 (51 internal)
Examples that run: 80%60 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 never run · 14 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 59%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

32.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,519 · ~88/day · ~2.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

6.2K90 days

32.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on530 r2u3 autocran2.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

tylermorganwall/rayshader ↗Account: tylermorganwall

2,182Stars

219Forks

42Open issues

6Open PRs

0Releases

558Commits

8Commit identities

558 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Discussions: 34 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 41%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 36
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 12

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 2,1132026-10-03 · 2,182

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tylermorganwall/rayshader on 2026-10-11.

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 (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-20

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rayshader adds 86 packages (49 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (18)

doParallel foreach Rcpp progress raster scales png jpeg rglgrDevicesgridutilsmethodsterrainmeshr rayimage rayvertex rayrender magrittr

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp progress RcppArmadillo

Suggests (19)

reshape2 viridis av magick ggplot2 sf isoband car geosphere gifski ambient terra elevatr gridExtra testthat osmdata raybevel (>= 0.2.1)ragg skymodelr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

hillshader

Suggests, most downloaded first

rayrender ggseg3d fitbitViz PoweREST

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Tyler Morgan-Wall

Releases (16)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.41.2Latest
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2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
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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
0.37.3
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2024-02-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
convert_rgl_to_raymesh, render_beveled_polygons, render_buildings, render_raymesh, run_documentation
0.35.7
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2023-06-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 14 exports
cloud_shade, constant_shade, convert_path_to_animation_coords, flag_banner_obj, flag_full_obj, flag_pole_obj, render_clouds, render_contours, render_floating_overlay, render_multipolygonz, render_obj, render_resize_window, render_tree, save_multipolygonz_to_obj
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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
0.24.10
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2021-04-28 · diff ↗
0.24.5
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2021-04-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
generate_compass_overlay, generate_label_overlay, generate_point_overlay, generate_scalebar_overlay, generate_waterline_overlay, render_polygons, texture_shade
0.19.2
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2020-08-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
generate_altitude_overlay, generate_contour_overlay, generate_line_overlay, generate_polygon_overlay, render_path, render_points, resize_matrix
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.15.1
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2020-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
render_compass, render_scalebar
0.13.7
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2020-01-25 · diff ↗
0.13.2
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2019-12-18 · diff ↗

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0.13.1
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2019-11-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
height_shade, raster_to_matrix, reduce_matrix_size, render_highquality, save_obj
0.11.5
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2019-07-11 · diff ↗
0.11.4
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2019-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
plot_gg, render_movie
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.10.1
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2019-02-20 · diff ↗
0.10.0
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2019-02-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
add_overlay, render_camera, render_depth, render_label, render_snapshot, render_water
0.5.1
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2018-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
write_png

added 2 exports
save_3dprint, save_png
0.4.7
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2018-08-31
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-31
Total releases: 16 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 2.5 MB / 4 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rayshader")

Format

Morgan-Wall, T. (2026). rayshader: Create Maps and Visualize Data in 2D and 3D (Version 0.41.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rayshader

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rayshader version 0.41.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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