R Observatory: Metrics for spex version 0.7.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spex

0.7.1Package record

Spatial Extent Tools

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.9Kdownloads / year

82.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael D. SumnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions to produce a fully fledged 'geo-spatial' object extent as a 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame'. Also included are functions to generate polygons from raster data using 'quadmesh' techniques, a round number buffered extent, and general spatial-extent and 'raster-like' extent helpers missing from the originating packages. Some latitude-based tools for polar maps are included.

Changes in 0.7.1

Fixed tests.
Added sfc method, and now using crsmeta.
Ensure projargs is character, not logical.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("spex", 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("mdsumner/spex")

Development version from mdsumner/spex. 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-spex

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-spex

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-spex

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: 6.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.1

READMEYes · 299 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,065 · ~11/day · ~323/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44030 days

1K90 days

3.9K1 year

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Also on69 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mdsumner/spex ↗Account: mdsumner

21Stars

2Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

85Commits

1Commit identities

85 commits · Last activity 2020-09-29 · Default branch at 0.7.1.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.7.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 257
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2023-02-06 · 212026-07-07 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mdsumner/spex on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (4)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-09-29

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spex adds 28 packages (13 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB, quadmesh 3.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.5

Imports (7)

methodsquadmesh raster reproj spstatscrsmeta

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

graticule

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Michael D. Sumner

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.7.1Latest
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2020-06-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.6.0
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2019-06-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.5.0
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2018-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
latitudecircle, latmask, xlim
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.0
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2017-08-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ylim
0.3.0
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2017-05-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
buffer_extent, polygonize, qm_rasterToPolygons, qm_rasterToPolygons_sp
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2016-09-02

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-02
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.5
Bundled data: 41 KB / 3 files
Download size: 65 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spex")

Format

Sumner, M. D. (2020). spex: Spatial Extent Tools (Version 0.7.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spex

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spex version 0.7.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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