R Observatory: Metrics for recmap version 1.0.20

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

recmap

1.0.20Package record

Compute the Rectangular Statistical Cartogram

0packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

65.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian PanseCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements the RecMap MP2 construction heuristic doi:10.1109/INFVIS.2004.57. This algorithm draws maps according to a given statistical value, e.g., election results, population, or epidemiological data. The basic idea of the RecMap algorithm is that each map region, e.g., different countries, is represented by a rectangle. The area of each rectangle represents the statistical value provided as input to maintain zero cartographic error. Computationally intensive tasks are implemented in C++. The included vignette documents recmap algorithm usage.

Install

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

install.packages("recmap", 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("cpanse/recmap")

Development version from cpanse/recmap. 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-recmap

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-recmap

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-recmap

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

Additional issues

linux-arm64

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.20

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 1.0.20Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 90%9 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 82%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 73%
Help pages citing references: 69%

Vignettes (1)

Draw your own Rectangular Statistical Cartogram with recmap

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,444 · ~17/day · ~520/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51230 days

1.5K90 days

6.2K1 year

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Also on374 r2u6 autocran177 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

cpanse/recmap ↗Account: cpanse

23Stars

3Forks

6Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

595Commits

2Commit identities

cartogramspatial-data-analysisgeovisualizationdemographicsvalue-by-area-mapsspatialgraph-drawingcran-r

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 595 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02 · Default branch at 1.0.21, ahead of CRAN 1.0.20 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 155

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 12026-09-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cpanse/recmap on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-02

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing recmap adds 8 packages (5 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: GA 4.8 MB, sp 4.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 4.5GA Rcpp sp

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

doParallel knitr rmarkdown shiny testthat tufte

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Christian Panse

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2016)

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.20Latest
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2025-08-19 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
.getUS_map
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.17
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2023-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
.get_7triangles, all.equal.recmap
1.0.16
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1.0.15
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2023-04-30 · diff ↗
1.0.14
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.11
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2021-09-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.9
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2021-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.7
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2020-02-20 · diff ↗
1.0.5
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2019-06-03 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.1
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2019-03-07 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2018-09-16 · diff ↗
0.5.37
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2018-08-28 · diff ↗
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2018-05-01 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.5.31
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2018-03-24 · diff ↗
0.5.26
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2018-02-26 · diff ↗
0.5.24
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2017-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
recmap2sp, sp2recmap

added 3 exports
is.recmap, as.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, as.recmap
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.5.20
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2017-04-10 · diff ↗
0.5.16
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2017-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
sp2recmap, plot.recmapGA, plot.recmapGRASP, summary.recmapGA
0.5.4
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2016-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
recmapGRASP, summary.recmap
0.5.3
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2016-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
plot_recmap

added 4 exports
recmapGA, recmap2sp, checkerboard, plot.recmap
0.5.0
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2016-07-01 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2016-06-12 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2016-05-31 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.1
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2016-05-02
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-05-02
Total releases: 24 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5
Bundled data: 660 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.4 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("recmap")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for recmap version 1.0.20 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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