R Observatory: Metrics for rmapshaper version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rmapshaper

0.6.1

Client for 'mapshaper' for 'Geospatial' Operations

18packages depend

105.2Kdownloads / year

82.7%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andy TeucherFirst published 2016-06-2913 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Edit and simplify 'geojson', 'Spatial', and 'sf' objects. This is wrapper around the 'mapshaper' 'JavaScript' library by Matthew Bloch https://github.com/mbloch/mapshaper/ to perform topologically-aware polygon simplification, as well as other operations such as clipping, erasing, dissolving, and converting 'multi-part' to 'single-part' geometries.

Install

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

install.packages("rmapshaper", 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("ateucher/rmapshaper")

Development version from ateucher/rmapshaper. 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-rmapshaper

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-rmapshaper

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.99

82.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-17
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-07
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 805 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

105.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,409 · ~288/day · ~8.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.9K30 days

20.4K90 days

105.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on532 r2u2.1K conda_forge108 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ ateucher/rmapshaper

217Stars

13Forks

23Open issues

3Open PRs

13Releases

810Commits

9Contributors

rrstatsrlang

810 commits · Last activity 2026-05-10 · +0.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-06 · 2082026-07-30 · 217

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ateucher/rmapshaper on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

methodsgeojsonsf jsonify readr (>= 2.1.0)sf sp V8

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

knitr magrittr rmarkdown testthat jsonlite covr units withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

18direct

2indirect

MazamaSpatialUtils SUNGEO canadamaps cshapes dots micromapST FedData MultiscaleSCP StratifiedSampling alarmdata countryatlas csdata dawaR ipumsr leafdown pkmapr redist tmaptools

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Andy Teucher

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Andy Teucher

Author, Maintainer

Kenton Russell

Author · added in 0.2.0

Copyright holders (1)

Matthew Bloch

Copyright holder · added in 0.2.0

Package Timeline

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

0.6.1Latest
2026-05-09 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0
2025-12-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.0
2023-04-11 · diff ↗
0.4.6
2022-05-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.4.5
2021-05-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.4.4
2020-04-01 · diff ↗
0.4.3
2020-01-28 · diff ↗
0.4.2
2020-01-17 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Show 8 earlier events

0.4.1
2018-10-16 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.0
2018-04-03 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2017-08-16 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.0
2017-02-16 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2016-06-29
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-29
Total releases: 13 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rmapshaper")

Format

Teucher, A., Bloch, M., & Russell, K. (2026). rmapshaper: Client for 'mapshaper' for 'Geospatial' Operations (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rmapshaper

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rmapshaper version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →