R Observatory: Metrics for vaster version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vaster

0.6.0Package record

Tools for Raster Grid Logic

1packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

83.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides raster grid logic, operations that describe a discretized rectangular domain and do not require access to materialized data. Grids are arrays with dimension and extent, and many operations are functions of dimension only: number of columns, number of rows, or they are a combination of the dimension and the extent the range in x and the range in y in that order. Here we provide direct access to this logic without need for connection to any materialized data or formats. Grid logic includes functions that relate the cell index to row and column, or row and column to cell index, row, column or cell index to position. These methods are described in Loudon, TV, Wheeler, JF, Andrew, KP (1980) doi:10.1016/0098-3004(80)90015-1, and implementations were in part derived from Hijmans R (2024) doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.terra.

Changes in 0.6.0

New function adjacency() for cell-based neighbourhood lookup, replacing the old matrix shift functions (tl(), bl(), tr(), br(), la(), ta(), ra(), ba()). The new function takes dimension and cell arguments consistent with the rest of vaster, returning a matrix of neighbour cell indices with named columns for direction. Supports "queen", "rook", and "bishop" neighbourhood types.
Renamed ts() and te() to gdal_ts() and gdal_te() to avoid masking stats::ts().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vaster", 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("hypertidy/vaster")

Development version from hypertidy/vaster. 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-vaster

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-vaster

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-vaster

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: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK4 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 599 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 30includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%29 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,963 · ~8/day · ~256/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29730 days

92290 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on192 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hypertidy/vaster ↗Organization: hypertidy

8Stars

0Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

91Commits

2Commit identities

rraster

91 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0, ahead of CRAN 0.6.0 (checked 2026-10-21) · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,205
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-07-17 · 72026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hypertidy/vaster on 2026-10-21.

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)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-15

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-09-23
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vaster adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

grout

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michael Sumner

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2026)

Robert Hijmans

Contributor

Wrote original versions of abstract cell operations in raster package

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0Latest
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first seen 2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-03-10
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 367 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vaster")

Format

Sumner, M., & Hijmans, R. (2026). vaster: Tools for Raster Grid Logic (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vaster

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 vaster version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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