R Observatory: Metrics for rgrass version 0.5-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rgrass

0.5-3

Interface Between 'GRASS' Geographical Information System and 'R'

4packages depend

11Kdownloads / year

0.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Steven PawleyFirst published 2022-07-2113 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An interface between the 'GRASS' geographical information system ('GIS') and 'R', based on starting 'R' from within the 'GRASS' 'GIS' environment, or running a free-standing 'R' session in a temporary 'GRASS' location; the package provides facilities for using all 'GRASS' commands from the 'R' command line. The original interface package for 'GRASS 5' (2000-2010) is described in Bivand (2000) doi:10.1016/S0098-3004(00)00057-1 and Bivand (2001) https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Bivand.pdf. This was succeeded by 'spgrass6' for 'GRASS 6' (2006-2016) and 'rgrass7' for 'GRASS 7' (2015-present). The 'rgrass' package modernizes the interface for 'GRASS 8' while still permitting the use of 'GRASS 7'.

Install

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

install.packages("rgrass", 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("osgeo/rgrass")

Development version from osgeo/rgrass. 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-rgrass

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-rgrass

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-rgrass

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

0.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,231 · ~30/day · ~916/mo

Releases R versions

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1.9K90 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ osgeo/rgrass

33Stars

12Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

301Commits

10Contributors

grass-gisrstatsrstats-package

301 commits · Last activity 2025-08-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-07 · 312026-07-07 · 33

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/osgeo/rgrass on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Coverage (1)

Codecov

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

statsutilsmethodsxml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

terra sp knitr rmarkdown sf stars rastercodetoolstestthat withr fs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

rdwplus fasterRaster hydflood link2GI

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Steven Pawley

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.5-1

Authors (2)

Steven Pawley

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.5-1

Roger Bivand

Author

Contributors (5)

Sebastian Jeworutzki

Contributor

Rainer Krug

Contributor

Robin Lovelace

Contributor · added in 0.3-5

Markus Neteler

Contributor

Floris Vanderhaeghe

Contributor

Package Timeline

13 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5-3Latest
2025-07-11 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5-2
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0.5-1
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0.4-4
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0.4-3
2024-06-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4-2
2024-03-17 · diff ↗
0.4-1
2024-01-08 · diff ↗
0.3-9
2023-09-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2023-03-17 · diff ↗
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2022-10-11 · diff ↗
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2022-08-08 · diff ↗

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-07-21
Total releases: 13 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Pawley, S., Bivand, R., Jeworutzki, S., Krug, R., Lovelace, R., Neteler, M., & Vanderhaeghe, F. (2025). rgrass: Interface Between 'GRASS' Geographical Information System and 'R' (Version 0.5-3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rgrass

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rgrass version 0.5-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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