R Observatory: Metrics for wkb version 0.4-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wkb

0.4-0Package record

Convert Between Spatial Objects and Well-Known Binary Geometry

0packages dependsuggested by 1

24.6Kdownloads / year

64.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ian CookCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Utility functions to convert between the 'Spatial' classes specified by the package 'sp', and the well-known binary '(WKB)' representation for geometry specified by the 'Open Geospatial Consortium'. Supports 'Spatial' objects of class 'SpatialPoints', 'SpatialPointsDataFrame', 'SpatialLines', 'SpatialLinesDataFrame', 'SpatialPolygons', and 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame'. Supports 'WKB' geometry types 'Point', 'LineString', 'Polygon', 'MultiPoint', 'MultiLineString', and 'MultiPolygon'. Includes extensions to enable creation of maps with 'TIBCO Spotfire'.

Changes in 0.4-0

Change to which WKB representations SpatialPolygons convert to
SpatialPolygons objects now convert to either WKB Polygons or WKB MultiPolygons
If each Polygons object in the SpatialPolygons object contains a single Polygon object with only one exterior boundary then convert to WKB Polygon, otherwise convert to WKB MultiPolygon
Previously SpatialPolygons were converted to WKB Polygon containing multiple rings
Make changes for compatibility with R 4.0.0 (#12)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("wkb", 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("ianmcook/wkb")

Development version from ianmcook/wkb. 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-wkb

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-wkb

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-wkb

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

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

Maintainer: ‘Ian Cook <ianmcook@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("TIBCO", "Software"),
                      family = "Inc.",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Ian",
                      family = "Cook",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "ianmcook@gmail.com"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4-0

READMEYes · 37 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4-0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

24.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,932 · ~67/day · ~2.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

4.8K90 days

24.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u2 autocran775 conda_forge121 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ianmcook/wkb ↗Account: ianmcook

5Stars

2Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

52Commits

1Commit identities

52 commits · Last activity 2019-12-05 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4-0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4-0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2023-04-11 · 42026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ianmcook/wkb on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wkb adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 4.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

sp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rgeoda

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

TIBCO Software Inc.

Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2015)

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-28
Total releases: 4 / 11 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 14 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wkb version 0.4-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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