R Observatory: Metrics for spopt version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spopt

0.1.2Package record

Spatial Optimization for Regionalization, Facility Location, and Market Analysis

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kyle WalkerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements spatial optimization algorithms across several problem families including contiguity-constrained regionalization, discrete facility location, market share analysis, and least-cost corridor and route optimization over raster cost surfaces. Facility location problems also accept user-supplied network travel-time matrices. Uses a 'Rust' backend via 'extendr' for graph and routing algorithms, and the 'HiGHS' solver via the 'highs' package for facility location mixed-integer programs. Method-level references are provided in the documentation of the individual functions.

Changes in 0.1.2

Initial CRAN release.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("spopt", 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("walkerke/spopt-r")

Development version from walkerke/spopt-r. 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-spopt

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-spopt

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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NOTE9 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK8 OK2026-04-23

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 230 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 43 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 10%2 run in a plain check · 19 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 35%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,506 · ~7/day · ~217/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32030 days

97290 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on138 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

walkerke/spopt-r ↗Account: walkerke

61Stars

8Forks

1Open issues

4Open PRs

1Releases

107Commits

3Commit identities

107 commits · Last activity 2026-10-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 602026-08-08 · 61

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/walkerke/spopt-r on 2026-10-18.

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 (2)

Contributing guide

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-10

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-10

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

VS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spopt adds 16 packages (14 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, spdep 4.5 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (4)

sf spdepMatrixhighs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

testthat terra dodgr r5r knitr rmarkdown quarto tidycensus tidyverse mapgl

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 (2)

Kyle Walker

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2026)

PySAL Developers

Copyright holder

Original Python spopt library

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
record
2026-04-22 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-22
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 164 KB / 2 files
Download size: 4.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spopt")

Format

Walker, K., & PySAL Developers. (2026). spopt: Spatial Optimization for Regionalization, Facility Location, and Market Analysis (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spopt

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spopt version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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