R Observatory: Metrics for webglobe version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webglobe

1.0.3Package record

3D Interactive Globes

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard BarnesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Displays geospatial data on an interactive 3D globe in the web browser.

Install

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

install.packages("webglobe", 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-barnes/webglobe")

Development version from r-barnes/webglobe. 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-webglobe

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-webglobe

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Richard Barnes <rijard.barnes@gmail.com>’

The BugReports field in DESCRIPTION has
  https://github.com/r-barnes/webglobe/
which should likely be
  https://github.com/r-barnes/webglobe/issues
instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 0%15 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

webglobe: Interactive 3D Maps HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,088 · ~8/day · ~253/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25030 days

72090 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on96 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-barnes/webglobe ↗Account: r-barnes

29Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

82Commits

1Commit identities

rvisualizationdata-visualization3dglobecesiumjs

License file reads as MIT · 82 commits · Last activity 2020-09-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 381
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2021-12-02 · 292026-07-07 · 29

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/r-barnes/webglobe on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing webglobe adds 57 packages (38 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.4.0geojsonio jsonlite httpuv

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr R.rsp rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Richard Barnes

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2017)

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2020-09-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-02
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENCE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 4.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("webglobe")

Format

Barnes, R. (2020). webglobe: 3D Interactive Globes (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webglobe

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 webglobe version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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