sfheaders

0.4.5

Converts Between R Objects and Simple Feature Objects

28packages depend

1.4Mdownloads / year

96.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David CooleyFirst published 2019-10-0311 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Converts between R and Simple Feature 'sf' objects, without depending on the Simple Feature library. Conversion functions are available at both the R level, and through 'Rcpp'.

Install

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

install.packages("sfheaders", 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("dcooley/sfheaders")

Development version from dcooley/sfheaders. 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-sfheaders

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-sfheaders

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 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

1.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #528 · ~3.7K/day · ~112.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dcooley/sfheaders

76Stars

5Forks

13Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

447Commits

8Contributors

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447 commits · Last activity 2025-11-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dcooley/sfheaders on 2026-07-19.

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

geometries Rcpp

Suggests (3)

covr knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

28direct

104indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

David Cooley

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David Cooley

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Contributors (1)

Michael Sumner

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Package Timeline

11 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.5Latest
2025-11-25 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.4
2024-01-17 · diff ↗
0.4.3
2023-06-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.2
2023-03-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.0
2020-12-01 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2020-10-31 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2020-05-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.1
2020-03-19 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2020-01-20 · diff ↗

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0.0.2
2019-11-07 · diff ↗
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2019-10-03
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-03
Total releases: 11 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 83 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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