R Observatory: Metrics for toro version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

toro

0.2.0Package record

High-Performance Interactive Mapping

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

33.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Uli MuellnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Epi, NZ

Interactive spatial visualisations are a cornerstone for exploring and communicating complexity, and are commonly embedded into reports or interactive dashboards. However, as the amount of data grows, so do the demands on functionality, especially for technical and scientific data. To bridge this gap and create a mapping package that is high performing, a modern approach is needed that draws from best software engineering practices. Toro provides bindings to 'MapLibre GL JS', an open-source 'JavaScript'/'TypeScript' library for rendering interactive maps in the browser, built from the ground up for responsiveness and scale, by the MapLibre Organization (2020) https://github.com/MapLibre. This connection allows users to create interactive maps that can easily be integrated into both 'Quarto' and the 'R Shiny' dashboard framework. Toro thereby enables spatial visualisation and exploration of data that might otherwise be too limited, too slow, or too hard to scale using more traditional interactive mapping tools such as 'leaflet'.

Changes in 0.2.0

Updated package maintainer and author roles
Revised package documentation
Minor improvements and fixes
Implemented package foundation for future development

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("toro", 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("Epi-interactive-Ltd/toro")

Development version from Epi-interactive-Ltd/toro. 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-toro

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-toro

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-toro

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK6 OK2026-05-08

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 517 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 86 (8 internal)
Examples that run: 95%72 run in a plain check (30 of them under a condition) · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 97%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,780 · ~4/day · ~112/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39130 days

83890 days

1.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on32 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

epi-interactive-ltd/toro ↗Organization: Epi-interactive-Ltd

2Stars

0Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

251Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as AGPL-3.0 · 251 commits · Last activity 2026-10-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

Stars over time

2026-05-16 · 12026-07-07 · 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/epi-interactive-ltd/toro on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-29, before release 0.2.0 (2026-10-05)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing toro adds 51 packages (32 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5.0

Imports (6)

base64enc geojsonsf htmlwidgets jsonlite sf shiny

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

devtools dplyr knitr mapview rmarkdown spData testthat usethis webshot webshot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Uli Muellner

Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2026) · added in 0.2.0

Epi, NZ

Author, Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.2.0

The package was designed and developed by Epi (<https://www.epi.group/>)

Kiel Hards

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Petra Muellner

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Poppy Pakinui

Contributor

Jocelyn Qian

Contributor

Nick Snellgrove

Contributor

MapLibre contributors

Copyright holder

MapLibre GL JS library

Mapbox contributors

Copyright holder

mapbox-gl-draw plugin

Turf contributors

Copyright holder

turf plugin

Previously maintained by Poppy Pakinui (0.1.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

epi

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.0Latest
record
2026-10-05 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
add_drawn_shape, add_legend, add_paint_control, add_scale_control, check_chrome_available, remove_legend, remove_paint_control, remove_scale_control, set_scale_control_unit, toggle_scale_control, update_drawn_shape
·
29 hours in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-03 21:57 to 2026-10-05 03:17 UTC, in 8 readings.
0.1.0
record
2026-05-07
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 15 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5.0
Download size: 550 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("toro")

Format

Muellner, U., Epi, NZ, MapLibre contributors, Mapbox contributors, Turf contributors, Hards, K., Muellner, P., Pakinui, P., Qian, J., & Snellgrove, N. (2026). toro: High-Performance Interactive Mapping (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.toro

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 toro version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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