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rmapshaper

Client for 'mapshaper' for 'Geospatial' Operations

v0.6.1 · May 9, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE
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Description

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.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 17, 2026
ERROR 11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 7, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘rmapshaper.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from rmapshaper.Rmd:90-104 [unnamed-chunk-7]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `
...[truncated]...
ocessing vignette 'rmapshaper.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
could not find function "%>%"
--- failed re-building ‘rmapshaper.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘rmapshaper.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘rmapshaper.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from rmapshaper.Rmd:90-104 [unnamed-chunk-7]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `
...[truncated]...
ocessing vignette 'rmapshaper.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
could not find function "%>%"
--- failed re-building ‘rmapshaper.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘rmapshaper.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (18)

imports

MazamaSpatialUtils SUNGEO canadamaps cshapes dots micromapST

suggests

FedData MultiscaleSCP StratifiedSampling alarmdata countryatlas csdata dawaR ipumsr leafdown pkmapr redist tmaptools

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies geojsonsf jsonify readr (>= 2.1.0) sf sp V8 MazamaSpatialUtils SUNGEO canadamaps cshapes dots micromapST FedData MultiscaleSCP StratifiedSampling alarmdata countryatlas csdata dawaR ipumsr leafdown +3 more reverse deps rmapshaper

Version History

14 tracked
updated 0.6.1 ← 0.6.0 diff May 9, 2026
new 0.6.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.6.0 ← 0.5.0 diff Dec 3, 2025
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.6 diff Apr 10, 2023
updated 0.4.6 ← 0.4.5 diff May 10, 2022
updated 0.4.5 ← 0.4.4 diff May 25, 2021
updated 0.4.4 ← 0.4.3 diff Mar 31, 2020
updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.2 diff Jan 27, 2020
updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Jan 16, 2020
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Oct 15, 2018
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Apr 2, 2018
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff Aug 15, 2017
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Feb 15, 2017
new 0.1.0 Jun 28, 2016