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Rglottography: Programmatic Access to Glottography Speaker Area Polygons

Provides programmatic access to Glottography, an online repository of geospatial speaker-area polygons for the world's languages. The package allows users to list available datasets, download and install them, and load speaker-area polygons as standard spatial 'sf' objects in R. Data are sourced from either the Glottography organization on GitHub <https://github.com/Glottography> or the Glottography community on Zenodo <https://zenodo.org/communities/glottography>. Based on Ranacher et al. (2026) <doi:10.5334/johd.459>.

Version: 1.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli, httr2, jsonlite, sf, tibble
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), mockery, knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2, dplyr, rnaturalearth
Published: 2026-03-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Rglottography
Author: Peter Ranacher [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Peter Ranacher <peter.ranacher at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Glottography/Rglottography/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/Glottography/Rglottography
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Citation: Rglottography citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: Rglottography results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Rglottography.html , Rglottography.pdf
Vignettes: Rglottography: Getting started (source, R code)
Mapping languages with Rglottography (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: Rglottography_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Rglottography_1.2.0.zip, r-release: Rglottography_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: Rglottography_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): Rglottography_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): Rglottography_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Rglottography_1.2.0.tgz

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