toro: High-Performance Interactive Mapping
Interactive spatial visualisations are a cornerstone for exploring
and communicating complexity, and are commonly embedded into reports or interactive
dashboards. However, as the amount of data grows, so do the demands on
functionality, especially for technical and scientific data. To bridge this
gap and create a mapping package that is high performing, a modern approach is
needed that draws from best software engineering practices. Toro provides
bindings to 'MapLibre GL JS', an open-source 'JavaScript'/'TypeScript' library for
rendering interactive maps in the browser, built from the ground up for
responsiveness and scale, by the MapLibre Organization (2020) <https://github.com/MapLibre>.
This connection allows users to create interactive maps that can easily be
integrated into both 'Quarto' and the 'R Shiny' dashboard framework. Toro
thereby enables spatial visualisation and exploration of data that might
otherwise be too limited, too slow, or too hard to scale using more traditional
interactive mapping tools such as 'leaflet'.
| Version: |
0.2.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.5.0) |
| Imports: |
base64enc, geojsonsf, htmlwidgets, jsonlite, sf, shiny |
| Suggests: |
devtools, dplyr, knitr, mapview, rmarkdown, spData, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), usethis, webshot, webshot2 |
| Published: |
2026-10-05 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.toro |
| Author: |
Epi, NZ [aut, cph, fnd] (The package was designed and developed by Epi
(<https://www.epi.group/>)),
Uli Muellner [cre],
Poppy Pakinui [ctb],
Kiel Hards [ctb],
Nick Snellgrove [ctb],
Jocelyn Qian [ctb],
Petra Muellner [ctb],
MapLibre contributors [cph] (MapLibre GL JS library),
Turf contributors [cph] (turf plugin),
Mapbox contributors [cph] (mapbox-gl-draw plugin) |
| Maintainer: |
Uli Muellner <uli at epi.group> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/Epi-interactive-Ltd/toro/issues |
| License: |
AGPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: |
https://epi-interactive-ltd.github.io/toro/,
https://github.com/Epi-interactive-Ltd/toro/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
toro results |
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