googlePolylines

0.8.7

Encoding Coordinates into 'Google' Polylines

7packages depend

85.5Kdownloads / year

73.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David CooleyFirst published 2018-01-0915 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Encodes simple feature ('sf') objects and coordinates, and decodes polylines using the 'Google' polyline encoding algorithm (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/utilities/polylinealgorithm).

Install

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

install.packages("googlePolylines", 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("SymbolixAU/googlePolylines")

Development version from SymbolixAU/googlePolylines. 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-googlepolylines

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-googlePolylines

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

85.5K

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Rank #1,577 · ~234/day · ~7.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ symbolixau/googlepolylines

21Stars

7Forks

19Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

301Commits

10Contributors

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301 commits · Last activity 2025-07-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

covr knitr rmarkdown sf sfheaders testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

4indirect

googleway mapdeck opentripplanner osrm valh onemapsgapi openrouteservice

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

David Cooley

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

David Cooley

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Paulo Barcelos

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Michael Chirico

Contributor · added in 0.8.7

Chris Muir

Contributor · added in 0.7.2

Package Timeline

15 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-09
Total releases: 15 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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