R Observatory: Metrics for rgplates version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rgplates

0.6.1Package record

R Interface for the GPlates Web Service and Desktop Application

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam T. KocsisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and FAU GeoZentrum Nordbayern

Query functions to the GPlates https://www.gplates.org/ Desktop Application and the GPlates Web Service https://gws.gplates.org/ allow users to reconstruct past positions of geographic entities based on user-selected rotation models without leaving the R running environment. The online method (GPlates Web Service) makes the rotation of static plates, coastlines, and a low number of geographic coordinates available using nothing but an internet connection. The offline method requires an external installation of the GPlates Desktop Application, but allows the efficient batch rotation of thousands of coordinates, Simple Features (sf) and Spatial (sp) objects with custom reconstruction trees and partitioning polygons. Examples of such plate tectonic models are accessible via the chronosphere https://cran.r-project.org/package=chronosphere. This R extension is developed under the umbrella of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Unit TERSANE2 (For 2332, TEmperature Related Stressors in ANcient Extinctions).

Changes in 0.6.1

Added

The crs argument of mapedge to project the created map edge immediately after creating it.
The anchor parameter is now available for the offline module of reconstruct().

Fixed

Documentation of missing GWS models in the help of reconstruct().
Suppressed OGR warning messages of the offline reconstruct() on Windows that are output by sf::st_read() because of GPlates output

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rgplates", 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("gplates/rgplates")

Development version from gplates/rgplates. 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-rgplates

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-rgplates

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-rgplates

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,094 · ~20/day · ~610/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50330 days

1.4K90 days

7.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

gplates/rgplates ↗Organization: GPlates

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

154Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · DESCRIPTION declares CC BY 4.0 · 154 commits · Last activity 2025-09-11 · +20% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 78
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-12-19 · 42026-10-19 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gplates/rgplates on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-05

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-05

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rgplates adds 9 packages (8 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0sf

Imports (2)

methodsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown chronosphere httr2 geojsonsf sp terra

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 (6)

Adam T. Kocsis

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021), Author

Elizabeth M. Dowding

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Nussaibah B. Raja

Contributor

Simon Williams

Contributor · added in 0.3.1

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Funder

FAU GeoZentrum Nordbayern

Funder

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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added 1 export
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2022-09-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.0
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2021-05-18

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-18
Total releases: 11 / 5 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.1 MB

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Paleontology

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rgplates")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rgplates version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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