mapscanner

0.1.1

Print Maps, Draw on Them, Scan Them Back in

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

92.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark PadghamFirst published 2021-11-183 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Enables preparation of maps to be printed and drawn on. Modified maps can then be scanned back in, and hand-drawn marks converted to spatial objects.

Install

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

install.packages("mapscanner", 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("ropensci/mapscanner")

Development version from ropensci/mapscanner. 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-mapscanner

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,273 · ~8/day · ~258/mo

mapscanner Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/mapscanner

89Stars

7Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

477Commits

4Contributors

r-packagemapsscanspatial

477 commits · Last activity 2025-02-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/mapscanner 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

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (17)

cli curl fs glue magick magrittr memoise pdftools png purrr raster Rcpp reproj RNiftyReg sf slippymath tibble

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (13)

dplyr ggplot2 gibble jpeg knitr lwgeom mapview mmand osmdata polyclip rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Mark Padgham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Reviewers (2)

Reviewer

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Package Timeline

3 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.1Latest
2024-07-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.6
2021-11-26 · diff ↗
0.0.5
2021-11-18
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-11-18
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 | BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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