spopt: Spatial Optimization for Regionalization, Facility Location, and Market Analysis

Implements spatial optimization algorithms across several problem families including contiguity-constrained regionalization, discrete facility location, market share analysis, and least-cost corridor and route optimization over raster cost surfaces. Facility location problems also accept user-supplied network travel-time matrices. Uses a 'Rust' backend via 'extendr' for graph and routing algorithms, and the 'HiGHS' solver via the 'highs' package for facility location mixed-integer programs. Method-level references are provided in the documentation of the individual functions.

Version: 0.1.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.2)
Imports: sf, spdep, Matrix, highs
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), terra, dodgr, r5r, knitr, rmarkdown, quarto, tidycensus, tidyverse, mapgl
Published: 2026-04-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.spopt (may not be active yet)
Author: Kyle Walker [aut, cre], PySAL Developers [cph] (Original Python spopt library)
Maintainer: Kyle Walker <kyle at walker-data.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/walkerke/spopt-r/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://walker-data.com/spopt-r/, https://github.com/walkerke/spopt-r
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: Cargo (Rust's package manager), rustc >= 1.70
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: spopt results

Documentation:

Reference manual: spopt.html , spopt.pdf

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Package source: spopt_0.1.2.tar.gz
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