R Observatory: Metrics for tilemaps version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tilemaps

0.2.2Package record

Generate Tile Maps

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kaelyn RosenbergCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements an algorithm for generating maps, known as tile maps, in which each region is represented by a single tile of the same shape and size. The algorithm was first proposed in "Generating Tile Maps" by Graham McNeill and Scott Hale (2017) doi:10.1111/cgf.13200. Functions allow users to generate, plot, and compare square or hexagon tile maps.

Changes in 0.2.2

Updated check for contiguous regions

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tilemaps", 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("kaerosen/tilemaps")

Development version from kaerosen/tilemaps. 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-tilemaps

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-tilemaps

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-tilemaps

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.2.2

READMEYes · 608 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 40%

Vignettes (1)

Tile Maps HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,905 · ~9/day · ~280/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41430 days

88490 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on103 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kaerosen/tilemaps ↗Account: kaerosen

51Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

122Commits

2Commit identities

122 commits · Last activity 2025-11-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-19 · 482026-07-07 · 51

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kaerosen/tilemaps on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-11-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tilemaps adds 31 packages (18 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (5)

clue ggplot2 igraph sf smoothr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

dplyr knitr lwgeom rmarkdown spData

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 (1)

Kaelyn Rosenberg

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.2Latest
record
2025-11-03 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.1
record
2025-09-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
record
2020-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
create_island
0.1.0
record
2020-06-19
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-19
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 44 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tilemaps")

Format

Rosenberg, K. (2025). tilemaps: Generate Tile Maps (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tilemaps

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tilemaps version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →