mapdeck

0.3.6

Interactive Maps Using 'Mapbox GL JS' and 'Deck.gl'

5packages depend

58.1Kdownloads / year

55.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David CooleyFirst published 2018-08-168 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a mechanism to plot an interactive map using 'Mapbox GL' (https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/api/), a javascript library for interactive maps, and 'Deck.gl' (https://deck.gl/), a javascript library which uses 'WebGL' for visualising large data sets.

Install

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

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

Development version from SymbolixAU/mapdeck. 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-mapdeck

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-mapdeck

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 7.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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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

Documentation

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Downloads

58.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,004 · ~159/day · ~4.8K/mo

mapdeck Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ symbolixau/mapdeck

382Stars

42Forks

77Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

1,173Commits

22Contributors

rrstatsmapbox-gl-jsdeckglmapboxmapbox-glgeospatialmaps

1,173 commits · Last activity 2025-03-21 · 0% stars, 30d

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (9)

colourvalues googlePolylines geojsonsf htmlwidgets jsonify magrittr Rcpp shiny sfheaders

LinkingTo (10)

BH colourvalues geojsonsf geometries interleave jsonify (>= 1.2.3)rapidjsonr Rcpp sfheaders spatialwidget

Suggests (7)

covr googleway jsonlite knitr rmarkdown spatialwidget testthat

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

5direct

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trackeRapp cancensus leafem mapboxapi mapview

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People (1)

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David Cooley

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Authors (1)

David Cooley

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

8 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.6Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.5
2024-01-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.4
2020-09-04 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2020-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.2
2020-04-05 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2020-03-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.1
2019-01-22 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2018-08-16

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-16
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 3.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics Analysis of Spatial Data

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