R Observatory: Metrics for sfhotspot version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sfhotspot

1.1.1Package record

Hot-Spot Analysis with Simple Features

0packages depend

4.5Kdownloads / year

93.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matt AshbyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Identify and understand clusters of points (typically representing the locations of places or events) stored in simple-features (SF) objects. This is useful for analysing, for example, hot-spots of crime events. The package emphasises producing results from point SF data in a single step using reasonable default values for all other arguments, to aid rapid data analysis by users who are starting out. Functions available include kernel density estimation (for details, see Yip (2020) doi:10.22224/gistbok/2020.1.12), analysis of spatial association (Getis and Ord (1992) doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1992.tb00261.x) and hot-spot classification (Chainey (2020) ISBN:158948584X).

Changes in 1.1.1

Package tests now streamlined to reducing CRAN testing time (#98).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sfhotspot", 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("mpjashby/sfhotspot")

Development version from mpjashby/sfhotspot. 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-sfhotspot

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-sfhotspot

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-sfhotspot

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: 5.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-04-30

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-20
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 532 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 67%6 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 15%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to sfhotspot HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,434 · ~12/day · ~372/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

81630 days

1.5K90 days

4.5K1 year

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Also on97 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mpjashby/sfhotspot ↗Account: mpjashby

53Stars

1Forks

12Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

163Commits

1Commit identities

hotspothotspotshotspots-analysismappingmapping-tools

163 commits · Last activity 2026-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-22 · 502026-08-11 · 53

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mpjashby/sfhotspot on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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.qmdpkgdown

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-30, before release 1.1.1 (2026-10-01)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-09-07
Pull request: opened by its own account

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sfhotspot adds 56 packages (33 with compiled code, 68 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

classInt cli dbscan ggplot2 ggspatial isoband rlang sf SpatialKDE spdep tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr lubridate rmarkdown quarto

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)

Matt Ashby

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2022)

Releases (8)

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1.1.1Latest
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2026-10-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
hotspot_dbscan, hotspot_isoband, hotspot_layer, hotspot_map
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0
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2025-07-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
hotspot_clip, st_transform_auto
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.1
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2025-02-19 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2025-02-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-09-19
0.8.0
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2023-09-19 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-09-11
installation issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.1
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2023-02-10 · diff ↗
0.7.0
record
2022-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
autolayer, autoplot, hotspot_change, hotspot_dual_kde, hotspot_grid
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.0
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2022-02-14
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-14
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 495 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("sfhotspot")

Format

Ashby, M. (2026). sfhotspot: Hot-Spot Analysis with Simple Features (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sfhotspot

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sfhotspot version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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