mapmisc

2.1.3

Utilities for Producing Maps

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9.1Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Patrick BrownFirst published 2013-11-2334 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides a minimal, light-weight set of tools for producing nice looking maps in R, with support for map projections. See Brown (2016) doi:10.32614/RJ-2016-005.

Install

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

install.packages("mapmisc", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mapmisc

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-mapmisc

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 20.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

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ERROR2026-03-12
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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0terra

Imports (6)

methodsgrDevicesstatsutilsgraphicsgeosphere

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

RColorBrewer geonames classInt knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

geostatsp

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Patrick Brown

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Patrick Brown

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Patrick Brown

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Barry Rowlingson

no longer listed · 0.9.2 to 1.2.4

Package Timeline

34 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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0.9.0
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-11-23
Total releases: 34 / 13 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 2.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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