toponym

2.0.1

Analyze and Visualize Toponyms

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lennart ChevallierFirst published 2026-04-131 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A tool to analyze and visualize toponym distributions. This package is intended as an interface to the GeoNames data. A regular expression filters data and in a second step a map is created displaying all locations in the filtered data set. The functions make data and plots available for further analysis—either within R or in a chosen directory. Users can select regions within countries, provide coordinates to define regions, or specify a region within the package to restrict the data selection to that region or compare regions with the remainder of countries. This package relies on the R packages 'geodata' for map data and 'ggplot2' for plotting purposes. For more information on the study of toponyms, see Wichmann & Chevallier (2025) doi:10.5195/names.2025.2616.

Install

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

install.packages("toponym", 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("Lennart05/toponym")

Development version from Lennart05/toponym. 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-toponym

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-toponym

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-toponym

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 6.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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OK2026-04-14
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,215 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ lennart05/toponym

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License GPL-3.0 · 263 commits · Last activity 2026-04-13

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Dependencies

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6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (9)

geodata ggplot2grDevicessf spatstat.geom spatstat.utilsstatsterrautils

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Lennart Chevallier

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Authors (2)

Lennart Chevallier

Author, Maintainer

Søren Wichmann

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.1Latest
2026-04-13 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-13
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 4.1 KB / 3 files
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