gdistance

1.6.5

Distances and Routes on Geographical Grids

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–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Andrew MarxFirst published 2011-01-0917 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides classes and functions to calculate various distance measures and routes in heterogeneous geographic spaces represented as grids. The package implements measures to model dispersal histories first presented by van Etten and Hijmans (2010) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012060. Least-cost distances as well as more complex distances based on (constrained) random walks can be calculated. The distances implemented in the package are used in geographical genetics, accessibility indicators, and may also have applications in other fields of geospatial analysis.

Install

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

install.packages("gdistance", 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("AgrDataSci/gdistance")

Development version from AgrDataSci/gdistance. 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-gdistance

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-gdistance

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-gdistance

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 11.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 36%

Downloads

72.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,054 · ~199/day · ~6.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ agrdatasci/gdistance

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1Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

3Contributors

61 commits · Last activity 2025-09-27 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

R >= 3.2.0rastermethodsigraphMatrix

Imports (3)

spstatsterra

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

23direct

6indirect

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Andrew Marx

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Authors (1)

Jacob van Etten

Author

Contributors (2)

Andrew Marx

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 1.6.2

Kauê de Sousa

Contributor · added in 1.3-6

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Kaue de Sousa

no longer listed · 1.3-0 to 1.3-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-01-09
Total releases: 17 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 2.7 KB / 2 files
Download size: 331 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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