R Observatory: Metrics for tmaptools version 3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tmaptools

3.3Package record

Thematic Map Tools

5packages dependsuggested by 3

321.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Set of tools for reading and processing spatial data. The aim is to supply the workflow to create thematic maps. This package also facilitates 'tmap', the package for visualizing thematic maps.

Changes in 3.3

deprecated functions removed
bb target aspect ration added

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tmaptools", 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/tmaptools")

Development version from r-tmap/tmaptools. 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-tmaptools

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-tmaptools

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-tmaptools

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: 2.3 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 3.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 58%7 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

321.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #741 · ~880/day · ~26.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33.7K30 days

68K90 days

321.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u5 autocran7.3K conda_forge120 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-tmap/tmaptools ↗Organization: r-tmap

44Stars

9Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

174Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as LGPL-3.0 · DESCRIPTION declares GPL-3 · 174 commits · Last activity 2026-09-09 · +2.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.3-0.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 57%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 233

Stars over time

2024-05-10 · 422026-09-28 · 44

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-tmap/tmaptools 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-09

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tmaptools adds 14 packages (11 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, stars 3.8 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5methods

Imports (6)

sf lwgeom stars units (>= 0.6-1)statsXML

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

tmap cols4all rmapshaper osmdata OpenStreetMap raster

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

21indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tmap mapedit bdl tmap.mapgl MainExistingDatasets

Suggests, most downloaded first

geonetwork ohsome zonebuilder

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Martijn Tennekes

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2017)

Releases (14)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.3Latest
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2025-07-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
%>%, get_brewer_pal, get_proj4, get_projection, is_projected, palette_explorer, set_projection, tmap.pal.info
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.2
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2025-01-13 · diff ↗
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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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.1-1
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2021-01-19 · diff ↗
3.1
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2020-07-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.0
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2020-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
removed 17 exports
aggregate_map, append_data, double_line, get_IDs, offset_line, osm_line, osm_point, osm_poly, over_coverage, points_to_raster, poly_to_raster, read_shape, sample_dots, smooth_map, smooth_raster_cover, under_coverage, write_shape
2.0-2
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2019-07-18 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0-1
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2018-08-07 · diff ↗
2.0
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2018-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
bb_sp, projection_units, sbind

added 3 exports
bb_poly, get_neighbours, tmap.pal.info

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R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.2-4
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2018-04-10 · diff ↗
1.2-3
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2018-02-13 · diff ↗
1.2-2
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2017-11-24 · diff ↗
1.2-1
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2017-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2
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2017-01-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
palette_explorer
1.0
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2017-01-03
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-01-03
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 29 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tmaptools")

Format

Tennekes, M. (2025). tmaptools: Thematic Map Tools (Version 3.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tmaptools

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tmaptools version 3.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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