R Observatory: Metrics for vectra version 0.11.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vectra

0.11.8

Columnar Query Engine for Larger-than-RAM Data

1packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

51.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gilles CollingFirst published 2026-04-229 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A minimal columnar query engine with lazy execution on datasets larger than RAM. Provides 'dplyr'-like verbs (filter(), select(), mutate(), group_by(), summarise(), joins, window functions) and common aggregations (n(), sum(), mean(), min(), max(), sd(), first(), last()) backed by a pure C11 pull-based execution engine and a custom on-disk format ('.vtr'). Reads and writes 'GeoTIFF' (including tiled and 'BigTIFF' layouts) and a tiled raster format ('.vec') with overview pyramids and time cubes for larger-than-RAM raster data. Streams vector operations (spatial transforms, point-in-polygon and nearest-feature joins including a two-sided grid-partitioned join, select-by-location, clip, erase, dissolve, 'rasterization', 'polygonization', and contouring) through 'sf', and runs raster operations (zonal statistics, focal windows, terrain derivatives, resample or 'reproject' warp, polygon masking, map algebra, and 'mosaicking') in native C or over the tiled '.vec' format, one batch or tile at a time for data larger than RAM.

Install

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

install.packages("vectra", 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("gcol33/vectra")

Development version from gcol33/vectra. 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-vectra

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-vectra

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-vectra

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 13.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.36

51.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

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
OK2026-07-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-01
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 5 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-29
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-09
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-22
5 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 937 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 84%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 2%

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,908 · ~5/day · ~140/mo

Releases R versions

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41530 days

1.2K90 days

1.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ gcol33/vectra

8Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

41Releases

242Commits

2Contributors

columnardata-analysisquery-enginerr-packagerstatsclarge-data

242 commits · Last activity 2026-08-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-04-25 · 12026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gcol33/vectra on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-03-05

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-03-05

Evidence

claude: on 2026-03-05 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

tidyselect rlang libgeosparallel

LinkingTo (1)

libgeos

Suggests (17)

biglm Biostrings bit64 DBI GenomicRanges igraph IRanges knitr openxlsx2 rmarkdown RSQLite S4Vectors sf ShortRead stringdist terra testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

taxify

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Gilles Colling

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Gilles Colling

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Gilles Colling

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

9 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.11.8Latest
2026-07-31 · current release · diff ↗
0.11.3
2026-07-18 · diff ↗
0.11.1
2026-07-10 · diff ↗
0.9.8
2026-07-02 · diff ↗
0.9.7
2026-06-29 · diff ↗
0.9.1
2026-06-29 · diff ↗
0.7.1
2026-06-12 · diff ↗
0.6.2
2026-05-08 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-05-08
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-06
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.1
2026-04-22
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-22
Total releases: 9 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vectra")

Format

Colling, G. (2026). vectra: Columnar Query Engine for Larger-than-RAM Data (Version 0.11.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vectra

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vectra version 0.11.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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