R Observatory: Metrics for tmap.cartogram version 0.2-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tmap.cartogram

0.2-1Package record

Extension to 'tmap' for Creating Cartograms

1packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martijn TennekesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides new layer functions to 'tmap' for creating various types of cartograms. A cartogram is a type of thematic map in which geographic areas are resized or distorted based on a quantitative variable, such as population. The goal is to make the area sizes proportional to the selected variable while preserving geographic positions as much as possible.

Changes in 0.2-1

internals updated to tmap 4.3

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tmap.cartogram", 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-tmap/tmap.cartogram")

Development version from r-tmap/tmap.cartogram. 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-tmap.cartogram

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-tmap.cartogram

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-tmap.cartogram

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: 6.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2-1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2-1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 33%
Documented parameters: 15%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,299 · ~9/day · ~265/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37530 days

93090 days

3.2K1 year

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Also on76 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-tmap/tmap.cartogram ↗Organization: r-tmap

2Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

38Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 38 commits · Last activity 2026-05-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 40
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-09-17 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-tmap/tmap.cartogram on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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 2026-05-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-06, before release 0.2-1 (2026-05-09)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tmap.cartogram adds 83 packages (46 with compiled code, 82 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

tmap sf cartogram

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr transformr gifski

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tmapverse

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Martijn Tennekes

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2025)

Sebastian Jeworutzki

Contributor · added in 0.2

Releases (3)

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0.2-1Latest
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2026-05-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
tmapMapboxDataPlot.tm_data_cartogram, tmapMapboxDataPlot.tm_data_cartogram_dorling, tmapMapboxDataPlot.tm_data_cartogram_ncont, tmapMaplibreDataPlot.tm_data_cartogram, tmapMaplibreDataPlot.tm_data_cartogram_dorling, tmapMaplibreDataPlot.tm_data_cartogram_ncont
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2
record
2025-05-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1
record
2025-02-03
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-03
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 54 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tmap.cartogram")

Format

Tennekes, M., & Jeworutzki, S. (2026). tmap.cartogram: Extension to 'tmap' for Creating Cartograms (Version 0.2-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tmap.cartogram

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 tmap.cartogram version 0.2-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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