gtfstools

1.4.0

General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Editing and Analysing Tools

4packages depend

10.5Kdownloads / year

91.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel HerszenhutFirst published 2021-02-236 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Utility functions to read, manipulate, analyse and write transit feeds in the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data format.

Install

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

install.packages("gtfstools", 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/gtfstools")

Development version from ipeaGIT/gtfstools. 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-gtfstools

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-gtfstools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ipeagit/gtfstools

48Stars

12Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

463Commits

9Contributors

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463 commits · Last activity 2026-05-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

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

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (12)

checkmate cli curl data.table gtfsio parallelly processx sf sfheaders unitsutilszip

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (6)

covr ggplot2 jsonlite knitr rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

1indirect

gtfs2gps GTFSwizard gtfs2emis r5r

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Daniel Herszenhut

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Daniel Herszenhut

Author, Maintainer

Pedro R. Andrade

Author · added in 1.0.0

Joao Bazzo

Author · added in 1.0.0

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Author · added in 1.0.0

Contributors (2)

Mark Padgham

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Marcus Saraiva

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Ipea - Institute for Applied Economic Research

Funders (1)

Ipea - Institute for Applied Economic Research

Package Timeline

6 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.0Latest
2025-01-09 · current release · diff ↗
1.3.0
2024-10-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-10-07
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-09-01
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.0
2022-11-24 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2022-05-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
2021-11-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
2021-02-23
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-23
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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