shapefiles

0.7.2

Read and Write ESRI Shapefiles

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–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ben StablerFirst published 2003-06-149 releasesCRAN 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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 45 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

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Downloads

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Dependencies

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R >= 1.6.0foreign

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 846 (81%)Rd 201 (19%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 23 max

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15 0 exported

Complexity

5.2 avg / 23 max

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet