R Observatory: Metrics for valh version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

valh

0.2.0Package record

Interface Between R and the OpenStreetMap-Based Routing Service 'Valhalla'

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

43.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Timothée GiraudCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An interface between R and the 'Valhalla' API. 'Valhalla' is a routing service based on 'OpenStreetMap' data. See https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla/ for more information. This package enables the computation of routes, trips, isochrones and travel distances matrices (travel time and kilometer distance).

Changes in 0.2.0

Fix

Don't parse osm_changeset as a date in vl_status function (fixes #2)
vl_status() no longer gives a check warning nor error if the resource is not available (fixes CRAN comment)
Use POST requests instead of GET for all services (PR #6)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("valh", 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("riatelab/valh")

Development version from riatelab/valh. 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-valh

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-valh

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-valh

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-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 955 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%7 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Installing Valhalla with Docker

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,230 · ~6/day · ~187/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23830 days

69190 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on121 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

riatelab/valh ↗Organization: riatelab

26Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

96Commits

2Commit identities

openstreetmaprr-packageroutingvalhalla

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 96 commits · Last activity 2026-02-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 212026-09-03 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/riatelab/valh on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing valh adds 12 packages (11 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, googlePolylines 4.9 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (5)

jsonlite googlePolylines curlutilssf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Timothée Giraud

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025), Author

Matthieu Viry

Author

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2026-02-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2025-04-09
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-09
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 863 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("valh")

Format

Giraud, T., & Viry, M. (2026). valh: Interface Between R and the OpenStreetMap-Based Routing Service 'Valhalla' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.valh

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 valh version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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