R Observatory: Metrics for vaster version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vaster

0.6.0

Tools for Raster Grid Logic

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

83.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerFirst published 2026-03-101 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 35.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.42

83.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
4 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 599 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,475 · ~6/day · ~188/mo

Releases R versions

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16130 days

1K90 days

2.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hypertidy/vaster

8Stars

0Forks

17Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

82Commits

2Contributors

rraster

82 commits · Last activity 2026-03-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Sumner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael Sumner

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Robert Hijmans

Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-10
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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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 v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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