geobr

2.0.1

Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

4packages depend

63.3Kdownloads / year

91.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rafael H. M. PereiraFirst published 2019-08-0521 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Easy access to official spatial data sets of Brazil. The package offers a wide range of spatial data sets available at various geographic scales and for various years with harmonized attributes, projection and fixed topology. All functions allow for seamless integration sf, DuckDB and Arrow.

Install

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

install.packages("geobr", 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("ipeaGIT/geobr")

Development version from ipeaGIT/geobr. 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-geobr

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-geobr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.82

91.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

63.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,625 · ~173/day · ~5.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ipeagit/geobr

933Stars

129Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

23Releases

4,783Commits

33Contributors

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4,783 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 8472026-07-15 · 933

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ipeagit/geobr on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (3)

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Coverage (1)

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Git structural (1)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

arrow checkmate cli curl dplyr (>= 0.8-3)DBI duckdb duckspatial fs glue httr2methodsnanoarrow rlang sf sfheaders stringrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

censobr covr data.table geoarrow ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown scales testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

cnefetools censobr geocodebr realestatebr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (26)

Maintainer (1)

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Author, Maintainer

Rogério Jerônimo Barbosa

Author · added in 2.0.0

Contributors (22)

Pedro R. Andrade

Contributor · added in 1.2

Paulo Henrique Fernandes de Araujo

Contributor

Rodrigo Almeida de Arruda

Contributor

Arthur Bazolli

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Carlos Kauê Vieira Braga

Contributor · added in 1.2

Guilherme Duarte Carvalho

Contributor

Filipe Cavalcanti

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Welligtton Silva Cavedo

Contributor · added in 1.1

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Barbara Santiago Pedreira da Costa

Contributor · added in 1.1

Daniel Ferreira

Contributor · added in 1.6

Lucas Gelape

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Caio Nogueira Goncalves

Contributor

Cecilia do Lago

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Rafael Lopes

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Beatriz Milz

Contributor · added in 1.8.2

Igor Nascimento

Contributor

Vinicius Oike

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Maken Rosa

Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Alessandro Samuel-Rosa

Contributor · added in 1.6

Marcus Saraiva

Contributor · added in 1.6.5

Carl Schmertmann

Contributor · added in 1.5

Alan da Silva

Contributor · added in 1.1

Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research

Funders (2)

Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research

ITpS - Instituto Todos pela Saúde

Funder · added in 2.0.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Pedro R. Andrate

no longer listed · 1.1

Package Timeline

21 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-05
Total releases: 21 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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