R Observatory: Metrics for sds version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sds

0.3.0Package record

Spatial Data Sources

0packages depend

122downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Descriptions of spatial data sources that can be read directly with or without download. Most sources are readable by 'GDAL' software. There are functions for imagery, elevation, and a variety of easily accessible data streams including image tile servers, links to online files, and geographic data services.

Changes in 0.3.0

The registry (inst/extdata/sds-registry.csv) is now the single source of truth for constant sources: the legacy functions (gebco() suite, cop30(), rema(), CGAZ(), addrock(), tas_dem(), ibcso(), the wms_* family, and friends) are one-line shims over dsn(). Edit the CSV, not the functions; equivalence is enforced by tests.
The GDAL_WMS XML recipes (wms_*) and the mapterhorn VRT now live as readable files in inst/sources/, each with a registry row. The two wms_mapbox_* functions remain token templates and are not rows. wms_amazon_elevation() no longer bakes in a stale 2022 UserAgent.
New export gadm(), GADM 4.1 whole-planet GeoParquet hosted as an sds release asset; the geodata.ucdavis.edu GeoPackage remains available as dsn("gadm_gpkg").

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Registry catch-up with the GEBCO rehosting: gebco26 row added, 2024-2026 served from Source Cooperative, 2019/2021 via the AADC data API.
Fix: ibcso(chart = TRUE) pointed at a misspelled (404) filename; now registry-backed and regression-tested.
Dead sources now say so: dea_250m_dem() errors with its successor (AusBathyTopo 250m 2024, doi:10.26186/150050) instead of returning a 404 URL; esri_ocean (retired 2022) and usgs_tnmblank are marked dead; CGAZ(old = TRUE) warns. ga_national_map service name corrected (NationalBaseMap) and a greyscale variant added.
The registry gained a linkcheck column (skip for sources alive but unreachable from CI), and the ozgrab grab-bag of Australian state services is promoted to named rows (sa/qld/nsw/wa/vic), adjudicated by the weekly link check.
Link checker hardening: WMS raw rows are now probed via GetCapabilities (a bare GetMap string cannot be validated), the weekly run appends a per-source history to .github/linkcheck-log.csv so link rot is tracked over time, and the report issue's label is created if missing. The audit retired ga_canberra_2014_wms (its GA service returns HTTP 400 even for GetCapabilities).
Removed unexported duplicates superseded by registry rows (the usgs_* WMTS functions, tasmap_sources(), the geoserver helpers); all remain available via dsn() / dsn_list().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sds", 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("hypertidy/sds")

Development version from hypertidy/sds. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-sds

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK7 OK2026-10-14

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 99 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 25 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%22 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

How these are measured

Downloads

122

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,502 · ~0/day · ~10/mo

sds Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

12230 days

12290 days

1221 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

hypertidy/sds ↗Organization: hypertidy

8Stars

0Forks

13Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

85Commits

2Commit identities

85 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository github.com/hypertidy/sds is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sds adds 12 packages (8 with compiled code, 5.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, dsn 651 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

countrycode dsn tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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 (1)

Michael Sumner

Releases (1)

0.3.0Latest
record
2026-10-13 · current release ·
9 days in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-03 21:57 to 2026-10-13 08:46 UTC, in 41 readings.
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 15 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-10-13
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 600 KB / 1 file
Download size: 643 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sds")

Format

Sumner, M. (2026). sds: Spatial Data Sources (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sds

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 sds version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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