wk

0.9.5

Lightweight Well-Known Geometry Parsing

30packages depend

3.4Mdownloads / year

92.0%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dewey DunningtonFirst published 2020-05-1121 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a minimal R and C++ API for parsing well-known binary and well-known text representation of geometries to and from R-native formats. Well-known binary is compact and fast to parse; well-known text is human-readable and is useful for writing tests. These formats are useful in R only if the information they contain can be accessed in R, for which high-performance functions are provided here.

Install

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

install.packages("wk", 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("paleolimbot/wk")

Development version from paleolimbot/wk. 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-wk

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-wk

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-wk

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

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-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.98

92.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 340 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 71%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #224 · ~9.2K/day · ~280.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

208.7K30 days

697.2K90 days

3.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ paleolimbot/wk

51Stars

8Forks

12Open issues

1Open PRs

18Releases

1,219Commits

10Contributors

1,219 commits · Last activity 2025-12-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-04 · 482026-07-07 · 51

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/paleolimbot/wk on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

.covrignore

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat vctrs sf tibble readr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

30direct

1,111indirect

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 13,534 (50%)C 9,476 (35%)Rd 2,672 (10%)C++ 1,531 (6%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S3309

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 19 max
Test cases: 351 / 0.98 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

92%

Expression

91.3%

Tests / Examples

92.0% / 53% ex

Functions

1071 188 exported

Complexity

1.5 avg / 19 max

Call network

1071 nodes / 1430 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

1071 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
wk_platform_endian exp	1	0%
wk_crs_projjson.crs	2	75%
validate_wk_wkb exp	5	82%
grd_calculate_plot_step	2	95%
wk_chunk_strategy_coordinates exp	6	95%
plot.wk_grd_rct	11	98%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
wk_proj_crs_json	data.frame	13,387 × 3	–
wk_proj_crs_view	data.frame	13,387 × 7	–

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Dewey Dunnington

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Dewey Dunnington

Author, Maintainer

Edzer Pebesma

Author

Contributors (1)

Anthony North

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Refractions Research Inc.

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.3.0

Vivid Solutions Inc.

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.3.0

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.5Latest
2025-12-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.4
2024-10-11 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2024-09-06 · diff ↗
0.9.2
2024-07-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.1
2023-11-29 · diff ↗
0.9.0
2023-10-22 · diff ↗
0.8.0
2023-08-25 · diff ↗
0.7.3
2023-05-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.2
2023-03-17 · diff ↗
0.7.1
2022-12-09 · diff ↗
0.7.0
2022-10-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.6.0
2022-01-03 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2021-07-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.1
2021-03-16 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2021-03-06 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2021-01-16 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2020-10-13 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2020-08-03 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2020-07-21 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2020-06-21 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2020-05-11
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-11
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 791 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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