R Observatory: Metrics for sfcentral version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sfcentral

0.1.3Package record

Spatial Centrality and Dispersion Statistics

0packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

66.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gabriel V. GaonaCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Compute centrographic statistics (central points, standard distance, standard deviation ellipse, standard deviation box) for observations taken at point locations in 2D or 3D. The 'sfcentral' library was inspired in 'aspace' package but conceived to be used in a spatial 'tidyverse' context.

Changes in 0.1.3

Minor changes

Fix notes on release date

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sfcentral", 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("gavg712/sfcentral")

Development version from gavg712/sfcentral. 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-sfcentral

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-sfcentral

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-sfcentral

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 79 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,319 · ~15/day · ~447/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32030 days

86490 days

5.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/gavg712/sfcentral ↗

2Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

72Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 72 commits · Last activity 2025-09-09

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository gitlab.com/gavg712/sfcentral is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sfcentral adds 62 packages (36 with compiled code, 70 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

geodist Hmisc lwgeom scales sfstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

ggplot2 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Gabriel V. Gaona

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.3Latest
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2025-09-11 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.0
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2024-03-12
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-12
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 9.2 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sfcentral")

Format

Gaona, G. V. (2025). sfcentral: Spatial Centrality and Dispersion Statistics (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sfcentral

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 sfcentral version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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