geosphere

1.6-8

Spherical Trigonometry

95packages depend

570.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert J. HijmansFirst published 2010-02-0940 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

1WARNING12OK

Failing flavors

WARNING r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

Dependencies · direct

Check history

WARNING2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 66%

Downloads

570.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #620 · ~1.6K/day · ~47.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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107.2K90 days

570.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rspatial/geosphere

41Stars

8Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

53Commits

6Contributors

53 commits · Last activity 2026-03-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rspatial/geosphere on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

95direct

26indirect

and 47 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

C 9,630 (39%)C++ 9,530 (39%)R 2,785 (11%)Rd 2,138 (9%)Vignettes 337 (1%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S4 generic4S4 method16

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 31 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

359 0 exported

Complexity

3.5 avg / 31 max

Call network

359 nodes / 148 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Robert J. Hijmans

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Robert J. Hijmans

Maintainer, Author

Contributors (3)

Charles Karney

Contributor · added in 1.5-14

Chris Vennes

Contributor

Ed Williams

Contributor

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-02-09
Total releases: 40 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 438 KB / 2 files
Download size: 859 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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