R Observatory: Metrics for geosphere version 1.6-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

geosphere

1.6-8Package record

Spherical Trigonometry

77packages dependsuggested by 21

484.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert J. HijmansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations.

Install

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

install.packages("geosphere", 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("rspatial/geosphere")

Development version from rspatial/geosphere. 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-geosphere

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-geosphere

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-geosphere

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

1WARNING12OK

Check messages

WARNINGwhether package can be installedr-release-macos-x86_64

Found the following significant warnings:
  Math.cpp:59:8: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile float' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:60:9: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile float' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:59:8: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:60:9: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:59:8: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile long double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
  Math.cpp:60:9: warning: compound assignment to object of volatile-qualified type 'volatile long double' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-volatile]
See ‘/Volumes/Builds/packages/big-sur-x86_64/results/4.6/geosphere.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
* used C compiler: ‘Apple clang version 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)’
* used C++ compiler: ‘Apple clang version 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)’
* used SDK: ‘MacOSX11.3.1.sdk’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNINGNow
WARNING11 OK, 1 WARNING2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6-8

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 44includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%41 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 66%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the geosphere package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

484.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #633 · ~1.3K/day · ~40.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31.4K30 days

92.2K90 days

484.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on6.5K r2u240 autocran14.2K conda_forge328 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rspatial/geosphere ↗Organization: rspatial

41Stars

8Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

53Commits

6Commit identities

53 commits · Last activity 2026-03-25 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.6-7) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 72
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 71

Stars over time

2025-10-19 · 392026-07-07 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rspatial/geosphere on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing geosphere adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0methods

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

terra sf sp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

77direct

32indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 76

Suggested by 21

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 29 more dependents and 21 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Robert J. Hijmans

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2010), Author

Charles Karney

Contributor · added in 1.5-14

GeographicLib

Chris Vennes

Contributor

Ed Williams

Contributor

Releases (40)

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Package metadata

First published: 1977-08-08
Total releases: 40
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 438 KB / 2 files
Download size: 859 KB

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Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("geosphere")

Format

Hijmans, R. J., Karney, C., Vennes, C., & Williams, E. (2026). geosphere: Spherical Trigonometry (Version 1.6-8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.geosphere

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for geosphere version 1.6-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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