R Observatory: Metrics for zonebuilder version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

zonebuilder

0.1.0

Create and Explore Geographic Zoning Systems

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin LovelaceFirst published 2021-02-193 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-13
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 7 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-05-12
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-16
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-15
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-19
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-12
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 750 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,394 · ~8/day · ~257/mo

Releases R versions

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23830 days

75590 days

3.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ zonebuilders/zonebuilder

39Stars

4Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

326Commits

4Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 326 commits · Last activity 2026-02-18

Stars over time

2025-02-19 · 392026-07-07 · 39

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/zonebuilders/zonebuilder on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub Actionstic

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Robin Lovelace

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Robin Lovelace

Author, Maintainer

Martijn Tennekes

Author

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0Latest
2025-02-13 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-02-13
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
0.0.2
2021-07-13 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-07-13
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
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for zonebuilder version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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