R Observatory: Metrics for statebins version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

statebins

1.4.0

Create United States Uniform Cartogram Heatmaps

2packages depend

12.4Kdownloads / year

48.7%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bob RudisFirst published 2014-08-273 releasesCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

The 'cartogram' heatmaps generated by the included methods are an alternative to choropleth maps for the United States and are based on work by the Washington Post graphics department in their report on "The states most threatened by trade" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/states-most-threatened-by-trade/). "State bins" preserve as much of the geographic placement of the states as possible but have the look and feel of a traditional heatmap. Functions are provided that allow for use of a binned, discrete scale, a continuous scale or manually specified colors depending on what is needed for the underlying data.

Install

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

install.packages("statebins", 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("hrbrmstr/statebins")

Development version from hrbrmstr/statebins. 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-statebins

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-statebins

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-statebins

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

48.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 63%
Return-value docs: 33%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

12.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,536 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

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49530 days

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12.4K1 year

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Repository

GitLab ↗ hrbrmstr/statebins

Repository practices

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Repository gitlab.com/hrbrmstr/statebins is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

ggplot2 scalesgrid

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

viridis RColorBrewer covr tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

geoheatmap patterncausality

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4.0

Authors (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4.0

Contributors (4)

Brian Adams

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Harold Gil

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Mathew Kiang

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Thomas Wood

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2.2

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-27
Total releases: 3 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 858 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

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citation("statebins")

Format

Rudis, B., Adams, B., Gil, H., Kiang, M., & Wood, T. (2020). statebins: Create United States Uniform Cartogram Heatmaps (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.statebins

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for statebins version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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