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cleanepi vs maplegend
A side-by-side editorial comparison of cleanepi and maplegend — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
cleanepi vs maplegend: at a glance
What is cleanepi?
cleanepi is in the long tail of bug fixes that follows a 1.0 — and changed maintainers along the way.
cleanepi cleans and standardises epidemiological line list data — dates, subject IDs, missing values, duplicates — and produces a report of what it changed. Since 1.0.0 in mid-2024 the releases have been almost entirely corrective: date-guesser fixes, report structure fixes and matching behaviour corrections. Maintainership passed to Bubacarr Bah in 1.1.2.
What is maplegend?
The legend engine mapsf spun out, now covering legend types the parent map package can draw.
maplegend draws the legends for base-R thematic maps, extracted from mapsf so both packages could evolve the legend vocabulary independently. It has been catching up to the map types it has to serve: 0.6.0 added choro_point, choro_line, and choro_symb for choropleth legends rendered on circles, lines, and symbols, following the histogram legend type in 0.4.0. Considerable effort has gone into behaving correctly when the plot aspect ratio is not 1, which required refactoring most of the package in 0.4.0 and still produced a proportional-symbol segment sizing fix in 0.6.3.
cleanepi vs maplegend: editorial side-by-side
cleanepi
0.0ANALYTICS
cleanepi is in the long tail of bug fixes that follows a 1.0 — and changed maintainers along the way.
◆ Current state
cleanepi cleans and standardises epidemiological line list data — dates, subject IDs, missing values, duplicates — and produces a report of what it changed. Since 1.0.0 in mid-2024 the releases have been almost entirely corrective: date-guesser fixes, report structure fixes and matching behaviour corrections. Maintainership passed to Bubacarr Bah in 1.1.2.
◆ Where it's heading
Work has concentrated on the report object and on making the cleaning functions behave predictably at the edges — case- and whitespace-insensitive missing-value matching, report elements returned as vectors instead of comma-separated strings, an argument to print a single operation's report. The underlying cleaning API has barely moved since 1.0.0, which suggests it is settled.
◆ Prediction
The report interface has been reworked repeatedly across these releases and is the most likely place for further change; the cleaning functions themselves look stable.
maplegend
0.0ANALYTICS
The legend engine mapsf spun out, now covering legend types the parent map package can draw.
◆ Current state
maplegend draws the legends for base-R thematic maps, extracted from mapsf so both packages could evolve the legend vocabulary independently. It has been catching up to the map types it has to serve: 0.6.0 added choro_point, choro_line, and choro_symb for choropleth legends rendered on circles, lines, and symbols, following the histogram legend type in 0.4.0. Considerable effort has gone into behaving correctly when the plot aspect ratio is not 1, which required refactoring most of the package in 0.4.0 and still produced a proportional-symbol segment sizing fix in 0.6.3.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a support library whose backlog is defined by its caller. Every legend type mapsf can produce needs a matching legend renderer, and the release notes are dominated by spacing, offset, and border details — box_cex for symbol spacing, NA box placement in horizontal choropleth legends, text overflow when no_data is set. The shared vocabulary with mapsf is being maintained deliberately, with val_rnd, val_big, and val_dec propagating through legend types release by release. Version numbering is not monotonic in this feed, with 0.4.0 published seconds after 0.5.0.
◆ Prediction
Expect the remaining combined map types to acquire matching legends and the val_* formatting arguments to reach the types that still lack them.
Alternatives to cleanepi and maplegend
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 cleanepi or maplegend.
osmextract
osmextract stopped throwing your OpenStreetMap downloads away at the end of every session.
nanoparquet
nanoparquet is chasing byte-level agreement with the Java and Rust Parquet readers, not feature count.
poissonreg
poissonreg gave its models away to parsnip and kept the glue — now it just keeps glmnet honest.
S7
S7 has stopped adding surface and started proving it holds up against R itself.
torchvision
R's torchvision is porting PyTorch's vision stack one task at a time — instance segmentation just landed.
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Recent activity from cleanepi and maplegend
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 2mo agomaplegendContinuous legend formatting and aspect-ratio segment fix
- 4mo agomaplegendChoropleth legends on points, lines and symbols
- 7mo agomaplegendPackage-wide refactor for non-unity aspect ratios, histogram legends
- 7mo agomaplegendSingle-modality legends allowed for typo, symb and prop_line
- 9mo agocleanepiCase-insensitive missing-value matching and report fixes
- 1y agocleanepiReport elements become vectors; date parsing default restored
- 1y agomaplegendAlpha transparency and redraw on device resize
- 1y agomaplegendOffset and symbol sizing aligned with mapsf
- 1y agocleanepiDate guesser corrected; empty-row indices fixed
- 2y agocleanepiFirst major release with cleaning and reporting
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between cleanepi and maplegend?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. cleanepi and maplegend 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 cleanepi better than maplegend?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. cleanepi and maplegend 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 cleanepi?
Top cleanepi alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "cleanepi alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/cleanepi for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to maplegend?
Top maplegend alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "maplegend alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/maplegend for the full list with editorial commentary on each.