vapour

0.16.0

Access to the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' ('GDAL')

2packages depend

11.6Kdownloads / year

51.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael SumnerFirst published 2018-08-1426 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides low-level access to 'GDAL' functionality. 'GDAL' is the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' a translator for raster and vector geospatial data formats that presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats https://gdal.org/. This package is focussed on providing exactly and only what GDAL does, to enable developing further tools.

Install

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

install.packages("vapour", 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("hypertidy/vapour")

Development version from hypertidy/vapour. 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-vapour

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-vapour

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 16.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.27

51.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 691 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,936 · ~32/day · ~965/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hypertidy/vapour

89Stars

12Forks

63Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

1,099Commits

6Contributors

gdalgdal-apicpp

1,099 commits · Last activity 2026-07-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-01-23 · 842026-07-07 · 89

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hypertidy/vapour on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

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data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Funding

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (5)

jsonlite nanoarrow stringrutilswk

LinkingTo (1)

cpp11

Suggests (5)

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Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

ceramic ursa

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Sumner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael Sumner

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (13)

Roger Bivand

Contributor

Dewey Dunnington

Contributor · added in 0.9.5

Jim Hester

Contributor, Copyright holder

Robert Hijmans

Contributor · added in 0.6.5

Tomas Kalibera

Contributor · added in 0.10.0

Timothy Keitt

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Dale Maschette

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

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Mark Padgham

Contributor

Edzer Pebesma

Contributor

Even Rouault

Contributor · added in 0.6.5

Joseph Stachelek

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Simon Wotherspoon

Contributor

Jim Hester

Contributor, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

26 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.16.0Latest
2026-03-14 · current release · diff ↗
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2025-12-21 · diff ↗
0.13.0
2025-11-18 · diff ↗
0.12.0
2025-08-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-04-04 · diff ↗
0.10.0
2024-06-14 · 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
0.9.5
2023-04-11 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
0.9.2
2022-11-16 · diff ↗
0.9.0
2022-11-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-11-07
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-09-08
resubmitted with the same error

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0.8.82
2022-09-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-09-07
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-09-04
issues were not corrected in time
0.8.81
2022-08-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.8.5
2021-10-07 · diff ↗
0.8.0
2021-08-25 · diff ↗
0.7.8
2021-08-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.0
2020-01-30 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2019-09-28 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2019-09-18 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2019-05-06 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
2018-08-14
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-14
Total releases: 26 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 145 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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