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spacetime

1.3-3

Classes and Methods for Spatio-Temporal Data

17packages depend

250.3Kdownloads / year

51.1%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Edzer PebesmaFirst published 2010-09-3069 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Classes and methods for spatio-temporal data, including space-time regular lattices, sparse lattices, irregular data, and trajectories; utility functions for plotting data as map sequences (lattice or animation) or multiple time series; methods for spatial and temporal selection and subsetting, as well as for spatial/temporal/spatio-temporal matching or aggregation, retrieving coordinates, print, summary, etc.

Install

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

install.packages("spacetime", 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("edzer/spacetime")

Development version from edzer/spacetime. 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-spacetime

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-spacetime

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-spacetime

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.18

51.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-12
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-14
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 94%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 71%
References docs: 62%

Downloads

250.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #908 · ~686/day · ~20.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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14.5K30 days

53.2K90 days

250.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ edzer/spacetime

76Stars

20Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

351Commits

9Contributors

351 commits · Last activity 2025-01-23

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/edzer/spacetime on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsTravis CItic

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (9)

graphicsutilsstatsmethodslatticesp zoo xts intervals

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

adehabitatLT cshapesforeigngoogleVis gstat (>= 1.0-16)maps mapdata plm raster RColorBrewer rmarkdown RPostgreSQL knitr ISOcodes markdown sf sftime spdep

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

57indirect

DClusterm AGPRIS FRK GWmodel IDE covatest gstat iccTraj meteo spTDyn spTimer stxplore trajectories SpaceTimeBSS rtop sftime stars

Code & Tests

Code Composition

Other 3,825 (35%)R 3,145 (29%)Vignettes 2,334 (22%)Rd 1,482 (14%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S363S4 class10S4 generic14S4 method71

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 35 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

51%

Expression

45.9%

Tests / Examples

51.1% / 48% ex

Functions

127 18 exported

Complexity

3.4 avg / 35 max

Call network

127 nodes / 58 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

127 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
EOF exp	5	0%
eof exp	3	0%
mnf exp	1	0%
nbMult exp	7	0%
read.tgrass exp	3	0%
stInteraction exp	2	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
dates	Date	–	–
fires	data.frame	313 × 3	in 2 packages

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Edzer Pebesma

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Edzer Pebesma

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Tom Gottfried

Contributor · added in 0.5-1

Benedikt Graeler

Contributor · added in 1.0-0

Robert J. Hijmans

Contributor · added in 2.15.2

Listed in earlier versions (2)

with contributions by Benedict Graeler

no longer listed · 0.5-1 to 0.5-2

Benedict Graeler

no longer listed · 0.5-4 to 0.8-0

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Package metadata

First published: 2010-09-30
Total releases: 69 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 707 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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