wkb

0.4-0

Convert Between Spatial Objects and Well-Known Binary Geometry

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27.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ian CookFirst published 2015-02-284 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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'.

Install

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

install.packages("wkb")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("ianmcook/wkb")

Development version from ianmcook/wkb. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-wkb

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-wkb

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

sudo zypper install R-wkb

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.39

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Coverage

100%

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NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

27.9K

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Code

2,215Lines of code

4Exported functions

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Package metadata

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