R Observatory: Metrics for spaths version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spaths

1.2.0

Shortest Paths Between Points in Grids

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian DübenFirst published 2024-04-095 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Shortest paths between points in grids. Optional barriers and custom transition functions. Applications regarding planet Earth, as well as generally spheres and planes. Optimized for computational performance, customizability, and user friendliness. Graph-theoretical implementation tailored to gridded data. Currently focused on Dijkstra's (1959) doi:10.1007/BF01386390 algorithm. Future updates broaden the scope to other least cost path algorithms and to centrality measures.

Install

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

install.packages("spaths", 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("cdueben/spaths")

Development version from cdueben/spaths. 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-spaths

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-spaths

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-spaths

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

3ERROR2NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.21

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-03-10
8 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 4 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 108 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,272 · ~9/day · ~261/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cdueben/spaths

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36Commits

3Contributors

36 commits · Last activity 2025-04-03

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/cdueben/spaths on 2026-08-09.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

base Rcpp data.tableparallelstatsutils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

terra knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christian Düben

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christian Düben

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-04-09
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 243 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("spaths")

Format

Düben, C. (2025). spaths: Shortest Paths Between Points in Grids (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spaths

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spaths version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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