R Observatory: Metrics for rstac version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rstac

1.0.1

Client Library for SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog

6packages dependsuggested by 4

25Kdownloads / year

45.1%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Felipe CarvalhoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions to access, search and download spacetime earth observation data via SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC). This package supports the version 1.0.0 (and older) of the STAC specification (https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec). For further details see Simoes et al. (2021) doi:10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553518.

Changes in 1.0.1

Add support to jpg in preview_plot() function (#161)
Fix variable in filter expressions (non-standard evaluation) (#160)
Fix limit parameter as integer type in stac_search() and items()
Improve items_reap() documentation (#152)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rstac", 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("brazil-data-cube/rstac")

Development version from brazil-data-cube/rstac. 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-rstac

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-rstac

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-rstac

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘geom-funs.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'geom-funs.R'

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  rstac/tests/testthat/test-items_functions.R (.Dim: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 900 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 22 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%17 never run
Exported functions with examples: 84%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

25K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,564 · ~68/day · ~2.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6K90 days

25K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on722 r2u10 autocran3.2K conda_forge70 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

brazil-data-cube/rstac ↗Organization: brazil-data-cube

81Stars

21Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

1,074Commits

11Commit identities

rspatiotemporal-asset-catalogstacgeospatial

1,074 commits · Last activity 2025-12-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.0, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 284
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-17 · 742026-08-11 · 81

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/brazil-data-cube/rstac on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-07-18

pkgdown site last built 2024-07-18

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rstac adds 21 packages (17 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (9)

utilshttr jsonlite crayon sf png jpeggridmagrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

lifecycle testthat knitr tmap leaflet stars slider ggplot2 purrr dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sits greenR rsi rcrisp greenSD stacr

Suggests, most downloaded first

BFS mapme.biodiversity earthdatalogin spanner

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Felipe Carvalho

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.2 (2023) · added in 0.9.2

Brazil Data Cube Team

Author

Rolf Simoes

Author · added in 0.9.2

National Institute for Space Research (INPE)

Copyright holder

Previously maintained by Brazil Data Cube Team (0.9.0 to 0.9.1-5).

Releases (12)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1Latest
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2024-07-18 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
collections_fetch, collections_length, collections_matched, collections_next
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0
record
2024-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
assets_filter, items_group

added 13 exports
items_as_sfc, items_as_tibble, items_intersects, items_properties, items_select, items_sign_bdc, items_sign_planetary_computer, link_open, links, read_collections, read_items, read_stac, stac_type
0.9.2-5
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2024-02-11 · diff ↗
0.9.2-4
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2023-06-14 · diff ↗
0.9.2-3
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2023-05-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.2-2
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2023-02-01 · diff ↗
0.9.2-1
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2023-01-22 · diff ↗
0.9.2
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2023-01-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 14 exports
RSTACDocument, RSTACQuery, after_response, assets_list, before_request, check_query_verb, check_subclass, content_response, doc_query, endpoint, items_bands, omit_query_params, parse_params, subclass

added 18 exports
asset_eo_bands, asset_key, asset_raster_bands, assets_rename, assets_url, conformance, cql2_bbox_as_geojson, cql2_date, cql2_interval, cql2_json, cql2_text, cql2_timestamp, ext_filter, has_assets, items_as_sf, items_compact, preview_plot, queryables
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.9.1-5
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2021-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
assets_filter, assets_select, items_assets, items_filter, items_next, items_sign, sign_bdc, sign_planetary_computer
0.9.1-4
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2021-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
parse_params
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.9.1
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2021-04-16 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2020-12-14
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-14
Total releases: 12 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 236 KB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rstac")

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

It points to 10.1109/igarss47720.2021.9553518.

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 rstac version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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