R Observatory: Metrics for shapefiles version 0.7.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shapefiles

0.7.2Package record

Read and Write ESRI Shapefiles

4packages dependsuggested by 3

53.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben StablerCRAN page ↗

Functions to read and write ESRI shapefiles.

Install

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

install.packages("shapefiles", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-shapefiles

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-shapefiles

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-shapefiles

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Ben Stabler <benstabler@yahoo.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Ben",
                    family = "Stabler",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "benstabler@yahoo.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 50 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

53.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,805 · ~145/day · ~4.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.1K30 days

11.2K90 days

53.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on395 r2u4 autocran3K conda_forge125 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shapefiles adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (2)

R >= 1.6.0foreign

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

8indirect

Depends 4

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

BayesX fossil RSAGA GISINTEGRATION

Suggests, most downloaded first

R2BayesX mapplots traudem

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Ben Stabler

Maintainer since 0.1 (2003)

Releases (9)

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Package metadata

First published: 2003-06-14
Total releases: 9 / 23 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 1.6.0
Download size: 11 KB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

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citation("shapefiles")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shapefiles version 0.7.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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