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pkmapr: Pakistan Spatial Data Toolkit

CRAN status Version R-CMD-check Codecov test coverage License: GPL v3

pkmapr (pronounced P-K-Mapper) provides a clean, tidy interface to Pakistan’s official administrative boundary data from OCHA/HDX. It includes geometries at country, province, district, and tehsil level as sf objects compatible with the tidyverse and geospatial ecosystem, and includes utilities for geographic dictionary lookup, spatial measurement, coordinate reference system selection, and neighbour structure construction for use with spdep, ggplot2, leaflet, and related packages.

Installation

Install the released version from CRAN:

install.packages("pkmapr")

Or install the development version from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("abdullahumer1101/pkmapr")

Citation

citation("pkmapr")

Or cite directly.

For the CRAN release:

Umer, A. (2026). pkmapr: Pakistan Spatial Data Toolkit. R package version 1.2.1. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkmapr

For development releases archived on Zenodo:

Umer, A. (2026). pkmapr: Pakistan Spatial Data Toolkit. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19769542

See also

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.