R Observatory: Metrics for wk version 0.9.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wk

0.9.5Package record

Lightweight Well-Known Geometry Parsing

19packages dependsuggested by 12

3.1Mdownloads / year

92.0%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dewey DunningtonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a minimal R and C++ API for parsing well-known binary and well-known text representation of geometries to and from R-native formats. Well-known binary is compact and fast to parse; well-known text is human-readable and is useful for writing tests. These formats are useful in R only if the information they contain can be accessed in R, for which high-performance functions are provided here.

Changes in 0.9.5

Ensure package tests pass against forthcoming vctrs (#231).
Avoid memcpy() calls for zero size copies (@MichaelChirico, #227, #228).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("wk", 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("paleolimbot/wk")

Development version from paleolimbot/wk. 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-wk

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-wk

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-wk

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  wk/tests/testthat/test-grd-extract.R (.Dim: 1)
  wk/tests/testthat/test-grd-plot.R (.Dim: 1)
  wk/tests/testthat/test-grd-subset.R (.Dim: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.9.5

READMEYes · 340 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 60 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%42 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 69%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #229 · ~8.5K/day · ~258.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

201.3K30 days

595.7K90 days

3.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on44.2K r2u15 autocran101.3K conda_forge1K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

paleolimbot/wk ↗Account: paleolimbot

52Stars

8Forks

12Open issues

1Open PRs

18Releases

1,219Commits

10Commit identities

1,219 commits · Last activity 2025-12-21 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.9.4.9000) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 99%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 482026-08-11 · 52

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paleolimbot/wk on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-16, before release 0.9.5 (2025-12-18)

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting.covrignore

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 v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat vctrs sf tibble readr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

19direct

1,183indirect

Imports 19 · LinkingTo 4

Suggested by 12

Show all 31 packagesHide all 31 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

s2 rosm geoarrow spocc duckspatial geos fasterize PROJ reproj gdalraster vapour a5R apcf arcgisplaces redistmetrics centerline lazysf ceramic wkpool

Suggests, most downloaded first

sf duckdb bigrquery soilDB StreamCatTools bigrquerystorage mregions2 h3o deckglgeoarrow arcgisrouting grout geoarrowWidget

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Dewey Dunnington

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2020)

Edzer Pebesma

Author

Anthony North

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Refractions Research Inc.

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.3.0

Vivid Solutions Inc.

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.3.0

Releases (21)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.5Latest
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2025-12-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.4
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2024-10-11 · diff ↗
0.9.3
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2024-09-06 · diff ↗
0.9.2
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2024-07-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.1
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2023-11-29 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2023-10-22 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2023-08-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
wk_coords<-, wk_clockwise, wk_counterclockwise, wk_orient, wk_orient_filter, wk_trans_explicit, wkb_to_hex
0.7.3
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2023-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.2
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2023-03-17 · diff ↗
0.7.1
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2022-12-09 · diff ↗
0.7.0
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2022-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
wk_chunk_map_feature

added 42 exports
as_grd_rct, as_grd_xy, crc_center, crc_r, crc_x, crc_y, grd, grd_cell, grd_cell_range, grd_cell_rct, grd_cell_xy, grd_crop, grd_data_extract, grd_data_subset, grd_extend, grd_extract, grd_extract_nearest, grd_rct, grd_snap_next, grd_snap_previous, grd_subset, grd_summary, grd_tile, grd_tile_summary, grd_tile_template, grd_xy, new_wk_grd, rct_contains, rct_height, rct_intersection and 12 more
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.6.0
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2022-01-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
wkb_problems, wkt_format, wkt_problems

added 15 exports
wk_is_geodesic<-, is_handleable, wk_chunk_map_feature, wk_chunk_strategy_coordinates, wk_chunk_strategy_feature, wk_chunk_strategy_single, wk_crs_longlat, wk_crs_proj_definition, wk_envelope, wk_envelope_handler, wk_geodesic_inherit, wk_handle_slice, wk_is_geodesic, wk_is_geodesic_output, wk_set_geodesic
0.5.0
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2021-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 31 exports
as_wk_trans, new_wk_trans, wk_affine_compose, wk_affine_fit, wk_affine_identity, wk_affine_invert, wk_affine_rescale, wk_affine_rotate, wk_affine_scale, wk_affine_translate, wk_collection, wk_collection_filter, wk_coords, wk_drop_m, wk_drop_z, wk_flatten, wk_flatten_filter, wk_linestring, wk_linestring_filter, wk_plot, wk_polygon, wk_polygon_filter, wk_set_m, wk_set_z, wk_trans_affine, wk_trans_inverse, wk_trans_set, wk_transform, wk_transform_filter, wk_vertex_filter and 1 more
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.1
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2021-03-16 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2021-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 16 exports
as_wksxp, is_wk_wksxp, new_wk_wksxp, parse_wksxp, validate_wk_wksxp, vec_cast.wk_wksxp, vec_ptype2.wk_wksxp, wkb_format, wkb_translate_wksxp, wksxp, wksxp_format, wksxp_problems, wksxp_translate_wkb, wksxp_translate_wksxp, wksxp_translate_wkt, wkt_translate_wksxp

added 48 exports
wk_crs<-, as_crc, as_wk_handler, crc, handle_wkt_without_vector_size, is_wk_handler, new_wk_crc, new_wk_handler, sfc_writer, vec_cast.wk_crc, vec_cast.wk_rct, vec_ptype2.wk_crc, vec_ptype2.wk_rct, wk_bbox, wk_bbox_handler, wk_count, wk_count_handler, wk_crs, wk_crs_auto, wk_crs_auto_value, wk_crs_equal, wk_crs_equal_generic, wk_crs_inherit, wk_crs_output, wk_debug, wk_debug_filter, wk_format, wk_geometry_type, wk_geometry_type_label, wk_handle and 18 more
0.3.4
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2021-01-16 · diff ↗
0.3.3
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2020-10-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 25 exports
as_rct, as_xy, new_wk_rct, new_wk_xy, new_wk_xym, new_wk_xyz, new_wk_xyzm, rct, validate_wk_xy, validate_wk_xym, validate_wk_xyz, validate_wk_xyzm, vec_cast.wk_xy, vec_cast.wk_xym, vec_cast.wk_xyz, vec_cast.wk_xyzm, vec_ptype2.wk_xy, vec_ptype2.wk_xym, vec_ptype2.wk_xyz, vec_ptype2.wk_xyzm, xy, xy_dims, xym, xyz, xyzm
0.3.2
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2020-08-03 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2020-07-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 40 exports
coords_linestring_translate_wkb, coords_linestring_translate_wksxp, coords_linestring_translate_wkt, coords_point_translate_wkb, coords_point_translate_wksxp, coords_point_translate_wkt, coords_polygon_translate_wkb, coords_polygon_translate_wksxp, coords_polygon_translate_wkt, wk_geometry_type, wk_geometry_type_id, wkb_coords, wkb_debug, wkb_draw_lines, wkb_draw_points, wkb_draw_polypath, wkb_feature_ranges, wkb_meta, wkb_plot_new, wkb_ranges, wksxp_coords, wksxp_debug, wksxp_draw_lines, wksxp_draw_points, wksxp_draw_polypath, wksxp_feature_ranges, wksxp_meta, wksxp_plot_new, wksxp_ranges, wkt_coords and 10 more
0.3.0
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2020-06-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 21 exports
coords_linestring_translate_wkb, coords_linestring_translate_wksxp, coords_linestring_translate_wkt, coords_point_translate_wkb, coords_point_translate_wksxp, coords_point_translate_wkt, coords_polygon_translate_wkb, coords_polygon_translate_wksxp, coords_polygon_translate_wkt, is_wk_wkb, is_wk_wksxp, is_wk_wkt, parse_wkb, parse_wksxp, parse_wkt, vec_cast.wk_wkb, vec_cast.wk_wksxp, vec_cast.wk_wkt, vec_ptype2.wk_wkb, vec_ptype2.wk_wksxp, vec_ptype2.wk_wkt
0.2.1
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2020-05-11
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-11
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from LGPL (>= 2.1) in 0.3.1
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 791 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

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Dunnington, D., North, A., & Pebesma, E. (2025). wk: Lightweight Well-Known Geometry Parsing (Version 0.9.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wk

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wk version 0.9.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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