SpatialPosition
R package for computing spatial position models
Science Score: 62.0%
This score indicates how likely this project is to be science-related based on various indicators:
-
✓CITATION.cff file
Found CITATION.cff file -
✓codemeta.json file
Found codemeta.json file -
✓.zenodo.json file
Found .zenodo.json file -
○DOI references
-
○Academic publication links
-
✓Committers with academic emails
3 of 7 committers (42.9%) from academic institutions -
✓Institutional organization owner
Organization riatelab has institutional domain (riate.cnrs.fr) -
○JOSS paper metadata
-
○Scientific vocabulary similarity
Low similarity (5.0%) to scientific vocabulary
Keywords
Keywords from Contributors
Repository
R package for computing spatial position models
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: riatelab
- Language: R
- Default Branch: master
- Homepage: https://rgeomatic.hypotheses.org/category/spatialposition
- Size: 715 KB
Statistics
- Stars: 31
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 5
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
SpatialPosition

R package for computing spatial position models:
- Stewart potentials :warning:
- Reilly catchment areas
- Huff catchment areas
:warning: Functions related to Stewart's potential are deprecated. Please use the potential package instead.
Installation
{r}
install.packages("SpatialPosition")
Demo
Vignettes contain commented scripts on how to use SpatialPostion.
Introduction to the SpatialPosition package :
{r} vignette(topic = "SpatialPosition")Stewart Potentials: a Use Case :
{r} vignette(topic = "StewartExample")
Owner
- Name: riatelab
- Login: riatelab
- Kind: organization
- Location: Paris
- Website: https://riate.cnrs.fr
- Repositories: 49
- Profile: https://github.com/riatelab
Spatial analysis and mapping software packages created by the Center for Spatial Analysis and Geovisualization - RIATE
Citation (CITATION.cff)
# --------------------------------------------
# CITATION file created with {cffr} R package
# See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/
# --------------------------------------------
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: 'To cite package "SpatialPosition" in publications use:'
type: software
license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'SpatialPosition: Spatial Position Models'
version: 2.1.3
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SpatialPosition
abstract: 'Computes spatial position models: the potential model as defined by Stewart
(1941) <https://doi.org/10.1126/science.93.2404.89> and catchment areas as defined
by Reilly (1931) or Huff (1964) <https://doi.org/10.2307/1249154>.'
authors:
- family-names: Giraud
given-names: Timothée
email: timothee.giraud@cnrs.fr
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1932-3323
- family-names: Commenges
given-names: Hadrien
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=SpatialPosition
repository-code: https://github.com/riatelab/SpatialPosition
url: https://github.com/riatelab/SpatialPosition
contact:
- family-names: Giraud
given-names: Timothée
email: timothee.giraud@cnrs.fr
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1932-3323
keywords:
- accessibility
- cran
- potential
- r
- r-package
- spatial-analysis
- stewart-potentials
references:
- type: software
title: 'R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing'
notes: Depends
url: https://www.R-project.org/
authors:
- name: R Core Team
institution:
name: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
address: Vienna, Austria
year: '2025'
version: '>= 3.5.0'
- type: software
title: sf
abstract: 'sf: Simple Features for R'
notes: Imports
url: https://r-spatial.github.io/sf/
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sf
authors:
- family-names: Pebesma
given-names: Edzer
email: edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-7069
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sf
- type: software
title: sp
abstract: 'sp: Classes and Methods for Spatial Data'
notes: Imports
url: https://github.com/edzer/sp/
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sp
authors:
- family-names: Pebesma
given-names: Edzer
email: edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de
- family-names: Bivand
given-names: Roger
email: Roger.Bivand@nhh.no
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.sp
- type: software
title: grDevices
abstract: 'R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing'
notes: Imports
authors:
- name: R Core Team
institution:
name: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
address: Vienna, Austria
year: '2025'
- type: software
title: graphics
abstract: 'R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing'
notes: Imports
authors:
- name: R Core Team
institution:
name: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
address: Vienna, Austria
year: '2025'
- type: software
title: methods
abstract: 'R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing'
notes: Imports
authors:
- name: R Core Team
institution:
name: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
address: Vienna, Austria
year: '2025'
- type: software
title: isoband
abstract: 'isoband: Generate Isolines and Isobands from Regularly Spaced Elevation
Grids'
notes: Imports
url: https://isoband.r-lib.org
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=isoband
authors:
- family-names: Wickham
given-names: Hadley
email: hadley@posit.co
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X
- family-names: Wilke
given-names: Claus O.
email: wilke@austin.utexas.edu
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-9261
- family-names: Pedersen
given-names: Thomas Lin
email: thomasp85@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-4711
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.isoband
- type: software
title: raster
abstract: 'raster: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling'
notes: Imports
url: https://rspatial.org/raster
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=raster
authors:
- family-names: Hijmans
given-names: Robert J.
email: r.hijmans@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-2872
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.raster
- type: software
title: lwgeom
abstract: 'lwgeom: Bindings to Selected ''liblwgeom'' Functions for Simple Features'
notes: Suggests
url: https://r-spatial.github.io/lwgeom/
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lwgeom
authors:
- family-names: Pebesma
given-names: Edzer
email: edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-7069
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lwgeom
- type: software
title: parallel
abstract: 'R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing'
notes: Suggests
authors:
- name: R Core Team
institution:
name: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
address: Vienna, Austria
year: '2025'
- type: software
title: doParallel
abstract: 'doParallel: Foreach Parallel Adaptor for the ''parallel'' Package'
notes: Suggests
url: https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/doparallel
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=doParallel
authors:
- family-names: Corporation
given-names: Microsoft
- family-names: Weston
given-names: Steve
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.doParallel
- type: software
title: foreach
abstract: 'foreach: Provides Foreach Looping Construct'
notes: Suggests
url: https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/foreach
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=foreach
authors:
- name: Microsoft
- family-names: Weston
given-names: Steve
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.foreach
- type: software
title: cartography
abstract: 'cartography: Thematic Cartography'
notes: Suggests
url: https://github.com/riatelab/cartography/
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cartography
authors:
- family-names: Giraud
given-names: Timothée
email: timothee.giraud@cnrs.fr
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1932-3323
- family-names: Lambert
given-names: Nicolas
email: nicolas.lambert@cnrs.fr
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.cartography
- type: software
title: knitr
abstract: 'knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R'
notes: Suggests
url: https://yihui.org/knitr/
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=knitr
authors:
- family-names: Xie
given-names: Yihui
email: xie@yihui.name
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.knitr
- type: software
title: rmarkdown
abstract: 'rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for R'
notes: Suggests
url: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rmarkdown/
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown
authors:
- family-names: Allaire
given-names: JJ
email: jj@posit.co
- family-names: Xie
given-names: Yihui
email: xie@yihui.name
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666
- family-names: Dervieux
given-names: Christophe
email: cderv@posit.co
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4474-2498
- family-names: McPherson
given-names: Jonathan
email: jonathan@posit.co
- family-names: Luraschi
given-names: Javier
- family-names: Ushey
given-names: Kevin
email: kevin@posit.co
- family-names: Atkins
given-names: Aron
email: aron@posit.co
- family-names: Wickham
given-names: Hadley
email: hadley@posit.co
- family-names: Cheng
given-names: Joe
email: joe@posit.co
- family-names: Chang
given-names: Winston
email: winston@posit.co
- family-names: Iannone
given-names: Richard
email: rich@posit.co
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3925-190X
year: '2025'
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rmarkdown
CodeMeta (codemeta.json)
{
"@context": "https://doi.org/10.5063/schema/codemeta-2.0",
"@type": "SoftwareSourceCode",
"identifier": "SpatialPosition",
"description": "Computes spatial position models: the potential model as defined by Stewart (1941) <doi:10.1126/science.93.2404.89> and catchment areas as defined by Reilly (1931) or Huff (1964) <doi:10.2307/1249154>.",
"name": "SpatialPosition: Spatial Position Models",
"codeRepository": "https://github.com/riatelab/SpatialPosition",
"issueTracker": "https://github.com/riatelab/SpatialPosition/issues",
"license": "https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0",
"version": "2.1.3",
"programmingLanguage": {
"@type": "ComputerLanguage",
"name": "R",
"url": "https://r-project.org"
},
"runtimePlatform": "R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"author": [
{
"@type": "Person",
"givenName": "Timothe",
"familyName": "Giraud",
"email": "timothee.giraud@cnrs.fr",
"@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1932-3323"
},
{
"@type": "Person",
"givenName": "Hadrien",
"familyName": "Commenges"
}
],
"contributor": [
{
"@type": "Person",
"givenName": "Jol",
"familyName": "Boulier"
}
],
"maintainer": [
{
"@type": "Person",
"givenName": "Timothe",
"familyName": "Giraud",
"email": "timothee.giraud@cnrs.fr",
"@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1932-3323"
}
],
"softwareSuggestions": [
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "lwgeom",
"name": "lwgeom",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lwgeom"
},
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "parallel",
"name": "parallel"
},
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "doParallel",
"name": "doParallel",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=doParallel"
},
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "foreach",
"name": "foreach",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=foreach"
},
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "cartography",
"name": "cartography",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cartography"
},
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "knitr",
"name": "knitr",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=knitr"
},
{
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "rmarkdown",
"name": "rmarkdown",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown"
}
],
"softwareRequirements": {
"1": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "R",
"name": "R",
"version": ">= 3.5.0"
},
"2": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "sf",
"name": "sf",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sf"
},
"3": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "sp",
"name": "sp",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sp"
},
"4": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "grDevices",
"name": "grDevices"
},
"5": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "graphics",
"name": "graphics"
},
"6": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "methods",
"name": "methods"
},
"7": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "isoband",
"name": "isoband",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=isoband"
},
"8": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "raster",
"name": "raster",
"provider": {
"@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
"url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
},
"sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=raster"
},
"SystemRequirements": null
},
"fileSize": "677.629KB"
}
GitHub Events
Total
Last Year
Committers
Last synced: about 2 years ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Timothée Giraud | t****d@u****r | 70 |
| rCarto | t****d@c****r | 51 |
| rCarto | t****d@c****r | 14 |
| hcommenges | h****s@p****r | 6 |
| Hadrien Commenges | h****s@g****m | 2 |
| Joel Gombin | j****n@g****m | 1 |
| Timothée Giraud | r****o | 1 |
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: over 1 year ago
All Time
- Total issues: 16
- Total pull requests: 3
- Average time to close issues: 2 months
- Average time to close pull requests: about 6 hours
- Total issue authors: 5
- Total pull request authors: 2
- Average comments per issue: 0.88
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 3
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 0
- Pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Issue authors: 0
- Pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 0
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- rCarto (12)
- joelgombin (1)
- edzer (1)
- ptoche (1)
- mgageo (1)
Pull Request Authors
- rCarto (2)
- joelgombin (1)
Top Labels
Issue Labels
Pull Request Labels
Packages
- Total packages: 1
-
Total downloads:
- cran 676 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 855
- Total dependent packages: 1
- Total dependent repositories: 3
- Total versions: 11
- Total maintainers: 1
cran.r-project.org: SpatialPosition
Spatial Position Models
- Homepage: https://github.com/riatelab/SpatialPosition
- Documentation: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SpatialPosition/SpatialPosition.pdf
- License: GPL-3
-
Latest release: 2.1.3
published 7 months ago
Rankings
Maintainers (1)
Dependencies
- R >= 3.5.0 depends
- grDevices * imports
- graphics * imports
- isoband * imports
- methods * imports
- raster * imports
- sf * imports
- sp * imports
- cartography * suggests
- doParallel * suggests
- foreach * suggests
- knitr * suggests
- lwgeom * suggests
- parallel * suggests
- rmarkdown * suggests