mapsapi

0.5.4

'sf'-Compatible Interface to 'Google Maps' APIs

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Overview

About

Maintained by Michael DormanFirst published 2017-09-2717 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to the 'Google Maps' APIs: (1) routing directions based on the 'Directions' API, returned as 'sf' objects, either as single feature per alternative route, or a single feature per segment per alternative route; (2) travel distance or time matrices based on the 'Distance Matrix' API; (3) geocoded locations based on the 'Geocode' API, returned as 'sf' objects, either points or bounds; (4) map images using the 'Maps Static' API, returned as 'stars' objects.

Install

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

install.packages("mapsapi", 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("michaeldorman/mapsapi")

Development version from michaeldorman/mapsapi. 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-mapsapi

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-mapsapi

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ michaeldorman/mapsapi

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0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

74Commits

6Contributors

74 commits · Last activity 2023-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/michaeldorman/mapsapi on 2026-07-19.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

xml2 sf bitops stars RgoogleMaps httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown leaflet ggplot2 dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

stplanr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Dorman

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael Dorman

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (5)

Mihir Bhaskar

Contributor · added in 0.4.2

Tom Buckley

Contributor · added in 0.3.5

Alex Dannenberg

Contributor · added in 0.3.9

Juan P. Fonseca-Zamora

Contributor · added in 0.4.9

Rodrigo Vega

Contributor · added in 0.5.4

Package Timeline

17 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-06-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-09-07 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-07-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-27
Total releases: 17 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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