R Observatory: Metrics for zonebuilder version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

zonebuilder

0.1.0Package record

Create and Explore Geographic Zoning Systems

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin LovelaceCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions, documentation and example data to help divide geographic space into discrete polygons (zones). The package supports new zoning systems that are documented in the accompanying paper, "ClockBoard: A zoning system for urban analysis", by Lovelace et al. (2022) doi:10.5311/JOSIS.2022.24.172. The functions are motivated by research into the merits of different zoning systems (Openshaw, 1977) doi:10.1068/a090169. A flexible ClockBoard zoning system is provided, which breaks-up space by concentric rings and radial lines emanating from a central point. By default, the diameter of the rings grow according to the triangular number sequence (Ross & Knott, 2019) doi:10.1080/26375451.2019.1598687 with the first 4 doughnuts (or annuli) measuring 1, 3, 6, and 10 km wide. These annuli are subdivided into equal segments (12 by default), creating the visual impression of a dartboard. Zones are labelled according to distance to the centre and angular distance from North, creating a simple geographic zoning and labelling system useful for visualising geographic phenomena with a clearly demarcated central location such as cities.

Changes in 0.1.0

Various issues fixed for CRAN (#36)
Removal of zb_view() function
Addition of citation to documentation

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("zonebuilder", 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("zonebuilders/zonebuilder")

Development version from zonebuilders/zonebuilder. 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-zonebuilder

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-zonebuilder

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-zonebuilder

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-23
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-19
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-13
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-12
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-16
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-15
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-19
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-12
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 750 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,921 · ~8/day · ~257/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28330 days

79590 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

zonebuilders/zonebuilder ↗Organization: zonebuilders

38Stars

4Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

326Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 326 commits · Last activity 2025-02-13 · -2.6% stars, 30d · Discussions: 3 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-19 · 392026-09-21 · 38

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zonebuilders/zonebuilder on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowtic

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 2025-02-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing zonebuilder adds 10 packages (8 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

sf RColorBrewergraphicsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

knitr rmarkdown tmap tmaptools dplyr lwgeom leaflet covr bookdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Robin Lovelace

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2021)

Martijn Tennekes

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-02-13
0.1.0Latest
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2025-02-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
zb_view
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-02-11
issues were not corrected in time
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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-07-13
0.0.2
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2021-07-13 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-07-06
check issues were not corrected in time donttest check, does not use suggested packages conditionally
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.0.1
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2021-02-19
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-19
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 478 KB / 5 files
Download size: 4.6 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("zonebuilder")

Format

Lovelace, R., & Tennekes, M. (2025). zonebuilder: Create and Explore Geographic Zoning Systems (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.zonebuilder

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 zonebuilder version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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