R Observatory: Metrics for tidytransit version 1.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tidytransit

1.8.0Package record

Read, Validate, Analyze, and Map GTFS Feeds

2packages dependsuggested by 2

9.1Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Flavio PolettiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Read General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) zipfiles into a list of R dataframes. Perform validation of the data structure against the specification. Analyze the headways and frequencies at routes and stops. Create maps and perform spatial analysis on the routes and stops. Please see the GTFS documentation here for more detail: https://gtfs.org/.

Changes in 1.8.0

Empty strings in txt files are always parsed as NA in read_gtfs() #229
raptor() and travel_times() now support in-seat transfers #225
Updated documentation on authenticated downloads #224
The parameter max_departure_time in travel_times() is no longer supported
Improved error handling

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tidytransit", 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("r-transit/tidytransit")

Development version from r-transit/tidytransit. 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-tidytransit

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-tidytransit

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-tidytransit

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: 4.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.8.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.8.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 48 (15 internal)
Examples that run: 42%8 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 61%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

9.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,042 · ~25/day · ~759/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

90130 days

2.3K90 days

9.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on167 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-transit/tidytransit ↗Organization: r-transit

173Stars

22Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

1,029Commits

23Commit identities

transittransit-datagtfscrantidyversetransporttransportationpublic

1,029 commits · Last activity 2026-10-14 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.8.0.900, ahead of CRAN 1.8.0 (checked 2026-10-22) · Discussions: 4 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 21
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-08-09 · 1542026-09-24 · 173

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-transit/tidytransit on 2026-10-22.

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 (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-14

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tidytransit adds 32 packages (23 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (8)

gtfsio dplyr data.table sf jsonlite hms digest geodist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 scales lubridate leaflet

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

GTFShift transittraj

Suggests, most downloaded first

GTFSwizard mobdb

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (19)

Flavio Poletti

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2021) · added in 0.3.0

Tom Buckley

Author

Daniel Herszenhut

Author · added in 0.7.3

Danton Noriega-Goodwin

Author

Mark Padgham

Author · added in 0.3.0

Patrick Hausmann

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Alexandra Kapp

Contributor · added in 0.7.0

James Lamb

Contributor · added in 0.6.1

Angela Li

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Elaine McVey

Contributor

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 1.6.1

Bob Rudis

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Ryan Rymarczyk

Contributor · added in 1.6.1

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Kearey Smith

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Michael Sumner

Contributor

Charles Hans Thompson

Contributor

Davis Vaughan

Contributor · added in 1.6.1

Dave Vautin

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Kyle Walker

Contributor · added in 0.3.2

Previously maintained by Tom Buckley (0.2.3 to 1.0.0).

Releases (32)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.8.0Latest
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2026-01-26 · current release · diff ↗
1.7.1
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2025-08-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.7.0
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2024-10-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.6.1
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2023-12-07 · diff ↗
1.6.0
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2023-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
interpolate_stop_times
1.5.1
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2023-05-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.5.0
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2023-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as_tidygtfs
1.4.1
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2023-02-01 · diff ↗
1.4
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2022-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
get_feedlist, set_api_key

added 1 export
na_to_empty_strings
1.3.1
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2022-05-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.0
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2022-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
cluster_stops, empty_strings_to_na, stop_distances, stop_group_distances

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1.2.0
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2021-11-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_route_frequency
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-07-26
1.1.0
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2021-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
count_service_trips

added 6 exports
filter_feed_by_area, filter_feed_by_date, filter_feed_by_stops, filter_feed_by_trips, gtfs_transform, sf_as_tbl
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-07-02
check problems were not corrected in time
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
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2021-05-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
get_route_frequency, set_date_service_table, set_hms_times

added 1 export
write_gtfs
0.7.3
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2021-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
write_gtfs

added 1 export
validate_gtfs
0.7.2
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2020-12-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-04-17
0.7.1
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2020-04-17 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-04-03
check problems were not corrected in time Errors in '\donttest' parts of examples
0.7.0
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2020-03-15 · diff ↗
0.6.1
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2019-11-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_stop_geometry

added 3 exports
get_trip_geometry, shapes_as_sf, stops_as_sf
0.6
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2019-10-14 · diff ↗
0.5.2
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2019-08-25 · diff ↗
0.5.1
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2019-06-29 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2019-05-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
import_gtfs, routes_df_as_sf, stops_df_as_sf

added 4 exports
filter_stop_times, raptor, travel_times, write_gtfs
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.0
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2019-04-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_date_service_table

added 3 exports
set_date_service_table, set_hms_times, set_servicepattern
0.3.8
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2019-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_route_geometry, get_stop_geometry
0.3.6
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2019-02-04 · diff ↗
0.3.5
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2018-10-28 · diff ↗
0.3.4
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2018-09-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
filter_stops, get_date_service_table
0.3.2
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2018-09-03 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2018-09-02 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2018-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
route_frequency, stop_frequency

added 3 exports
get_route_frequency, get_stop_frequency, read_gtfs
0.2.3
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2018-08-05
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-05
Total releases: 32 / 8 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 152 KB / 2 files
Download size: 3.4 MB

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Poletti, F., Buckley, T., Hausmann, P., Herszenhut, D., Kapp, A., Lamb, J., Li, A., McVey, E., Müller, K., Noriega-Goodwin, D., Padgham, M., Rudis, B., Rymarczyk, R., Smith, K., Sumner, M., Thompson, C. H., Vaughan, D., Vautin, D., & Walker, K. (2026). tidytransit: Read, Validate, Analyze, and Map GTFS Feeds (Version 1.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tidytransit

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tidytransit version 1.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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