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CatastRoNav vs qtl
A side-by-side editorial comparison of CatastRoNav and qtl — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
CatastRoNav vs qtl: at a glance
What is CatastRoNav?
Navarre's cadastre client finally reaches feature parity with its bigger Spanish sibling.
CatastRoNav wraps the Cadastre of Navarre, a Spanish region that publishes its own cadastral services separately from the national system. Until 1.0.0 the package could only fetch cadastral parcels via ATOM; it now retrieves buildings and addresses through ATOM as well and adds WMS INSPIRE layer access through catrnav_wms_get_layer(). The same release relicenses to GPL-2, moves requests to httr2 with retries and switches messaging to cli.
What is qtl?
R/qtl is in pure custodial mode: every recent release answers a compiler, not a user
R/qtl is the long-established R package for QTL mapping in experimental crosses, covering interval mapping, composite interval mapping, multiple-QTL model fitting and the associated cross data formats. Nothing in the recent release history adds capability. Version 1.74 removes an include that started warning on CRAN, 1.72 improves an error message in cim(), and 1.70 migrates the C code from Calloc/Realloc/Free to their R_-prefixed equivalents for R-devel.
CatastRoNav vs qtl: editorial side-by-side
CatastRoNav
0.0ANALYTICS
Navarre's cadastre client finally reaches feature parity with its bigger Spanish sibling.
◆ Current state
CatastRoNav wraps the Cadastre of Navarre, a Spanish region that publishes its own cadastral services separately from the national system. Until 1.0.0 the package could only fetch cadastral parcels via ATOM; it now retrieves buildings and addresses through ATOM as well and adds WMS INSPIRE layer access through catrnav_wms_get_layer(). The same release relicenses to GPL-2, moves requests to httr2 with retries and switches messaging to cli.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is being pulled into line with CatastRo, the maintainer's national-cadastre client: same transport, same UTF-8 normalization strategy, same option names falling back to the CatastRo equivalents. Coverage has been gated by what the Navarre Cadastre actually publishes — 0.1.0 said outright that further ATOM capabilities would arrive when the regional service made them available, and 1.0.0 is that promise landing.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next releases to track new Navarre service endpoints as they are published, and to inherit whatever maintenance pattern CatastRo adopts next.
qtl
0.0ANALYTICS
R/qtl is in pure custodial mode: every recent release answers a compiler, not a user
◆ Current state
R/qtl is the long-established R package for QTL mapping in experimental crosses, covering interval mapping, composite interval mapping, multiple-QTL model fitting and the associated cross data formats. Nothing in the recent release history adds capability. Version 1.74 removes an include that started warning on CRAN, 1.72 improves an error message in cim(), and 1.70 migrates the C code from Calloc/Realloc/Free to their R_-prefixed equivalents for R-devel.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is being maintained, not developed. The work divides cleanly into keeping the compiled code building against successive R and toolchain versions, and fixing narrow bugs reported through the issue tracker. The C-level migrations in particular are compliance with R's tightening of its C interface rather than anything chosen. Users should read the stability as maturity: the analysis surface has been fixed for years and the maintainer is keeping it installable.
◆ Prediction
R has continued to restrict its non-API C entry points, and this package has already made two such migrations, so further compile-time compliance work is the most likely content of the next release.
Alternatives to CatastRoNav and qtl
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either CatastRoNav or qtl.
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parallelDist
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cairo
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Recent activity from CatastRoNav and qtl
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agoCatastRoNavBuildings, addresses and WMS layers arrive in 1.0.0 ⚡
- 8mo agoqtlRemove R_ext/PrtUtil.h include flagged by CRAN
- 8mo agoqtlClearer cim() error when multiple phenotypes are passed
- 1y agoqtlC memory calls migrated to R_Calloc/R_Realloc/R_Free
- 2y agoCatastRoNavATOM parcel retrieval and a caching system
- 2y agoqtlFix Rprintf call and remaining compiler warnings
- 2y agoqtlFix summary.scanone() thresholds and csvs phenotype reading
- 3y agoCatastRoNavGeometry validity fix for returned sf objects
- 3y agoCatastRoNavFirst release opens the Navarre cadastre to R
- 3y agoqtlFix addint()/addcovarint() with X chromosome QTL and missing phenotypes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between CatastRoNav and qtl?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. CatastRoNav and qtl are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is CatastRoNav better than qtl?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. CatastRoNav and qtl are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to CatastRoNav?
Top CatastRoNav alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "CatastRoNav alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/catastronav for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to qtl?
Top qtl alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "qtl alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/qtl-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.