R Observatory: Metrics for mwmapdata version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mwmapdata

1.0.0Package record

Spatial Boundary Data for Malawi Administrative Levels

1packages depend

1.1Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chifundo BitaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides official spatial boundary datasets for Malawi at multiple administrative levels: country (level 0), regions (level 1), districts (level 2), and traditional authorities (level 3). Also includes Lake Malawi boundary data. Boundary data are the Common Operational Datasets (COD-AB) sourced from the National Statistics Office of Malawi and distributed via the OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), version 02 https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-mwi. Intended for use with the 'mwmap' package or any spatial analysis workflow requiring Malawi administrative boundaries.

Changes in 1.0.0

First stable data-package release for the CRAN split from mwmap.
Rebuilt mw_level_0, mw_level_1, mw_level_2, and mw_level_3 from the included OCHA HDX / National Statistics Office of Malawi COD-AB shapefiles.
Added validation to the data build script for expected feature counts, EPSG:4326 output, and geometry validity.
malawi_data is now a deprecated alias for the current mw_level_2 district boundaries.
Raw shapefiles are excluded from the built package to keep CRAN package size under control.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mwmapdata", 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("bitacanalytics/mwmapdata")

Development version from bitacanalytics/mwmapdata. 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-mwmapdata

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-mwmapdata

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-mwmapdata

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK8 OK2026-05-07

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,241 · ~3/day · ~96/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16630 days

51790 days

1.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on33 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bitacanalytics/mwmapdata ↗Account: bitacanalytics

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-05-02

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmapdata on 2026-10-22.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mwmapdata adds 9 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

Imports (1)

sf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mwmap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Chifundo Bita

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

1.0.0Latest
record
2026-05-06 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-06
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 13 MB / 6 files
Download size: 13 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mwmapdata")

Format

Bita, C. (2026). mwmapdata: Spatial Boundary Data for Malawi Administrative Levels (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mwmapdata

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 mwmapdata version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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