basemaps

0.1.1

Accessing Spatial Basemaps in R

1packages depend

16.8Kdownloads / year

88.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jakob Schwalb-WillmannFirst published 2021-05-197 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A lightweight package to access spatial basemaps from open sources such as 'OpenStreetMap', 'Carto', 'Mapbox' and others in R.

Install

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

install.packages("basemaps", 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("16eagle/basemaps")

Development version from 16eagle/basemaps. 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-basemaps

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

# 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-basemaps

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ 16eagle/basemaps

65Stars

16Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

133Commits

4Contributors

rbasemapsmapboxopenstreetmapcartospatialesrimaptiler

License GPL-3.0 · 133 commits · Last activity 2026-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsAppVeyor

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

sf slippymath httr magick terra pbapplyutilsgrDevicesmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

stars raster ggplot2 png mapview mapedit testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

wpeR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jakob Schwalb-Willmann

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jakob Schwalb-Willmann

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

7 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.1Latest
2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.0.8
2024-11-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.7
2024-04-16 · diff ↗
0.0.6
2024-03-04 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-03-04
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-02-10
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.5
2022-09-26 · diff ↗
0.0.4
2022-09-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.1
2021-05-19
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-19
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 27 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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