R Observatory: Metrics for recmap version 1.0.20

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

recmap

1.0.20

Compute the Rectangular Statistical Cartogram

0packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

65.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian PanseFirst published 2016-05-0224 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

65.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 90%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 73%
References docs: 69%

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,289 · ~17/day · ~514/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cpanse/recmap

23Stars

1Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

595Commits

2Contributors

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

License GPL-3.0 · 595 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cpanse/recmap on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

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Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 4.5GA Rcpp sp

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

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none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christian Panse

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christian Panse

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("recmap")

Format

Panse, C. (2025). recmap: Compute the Rectangular Statistical Cartogram (Version 1.0.20) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.recmap

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for recmap version 1.0.20 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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