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The easystats meta-package is install tooling wrapped around a relicensed ecosystem.
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leaflet vs tsibble
A side-by-side editorial comparison of leaflet and tsibble — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
leaflet vs tsibble: at a glance
What is leaflet?
leaflet relicensed to MIT and finished migrating off R's retired spatial stack
leaflet is the R binding for the Leaflet mapping library. Its recent releases are dominated by one long migration: away from sp, rgdal, rgeos and raster, and toward sf and terra. Version 2.2.3 completed the user-facing half of that - sp is no longer installed by default, and bundled datasets ship as sf objects - while also relicensing the package from GPL-2 to MIT.
What is tsibble?
tsibble shipped one release in five and a half years - the data structure is finished
tsibble defines the tidy time-series data structure that fable and feasts are built on. The design churned heavily through 2018 and 2019, settled with the 0.9.0 move onto vctrs in mid-2020, and then went quiet: the next release, 1.2.0, arrived in February 2026 with a summary() method and some tidyselect helpers.
leaflet vs tsibble: editorial side-by-side
leaflet
0.0ANALYTICS
leaflet relicensed to MIT and finished migrating off R's retired spatial stack
◆ Current state
leaflet is the R binding for the Leaflet mapping library. Its recent releases are dominated by one long migration: away from sp, rgdal, rgeos and raster, and toward sf and terra. Version 2.2.3 completed the user-facing half of that - sp is no longer installed by default, and bundled datasets ship as sf objects - while also relicensing the package from GPL-2 to MIT.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a package being brought into line with an ecosystem that changed underneath it. The retirement of rgdal and rgeos forced the terra and sf work; the license change and dependency reductions are the maintainers taking the opportunity to clean up while they are already in there. Feature work, such as the full viridisLite palette set, arrives as a side effect of the tidying.
◆ Prediction
With the sp path now opt-in and the retired geospatial dependencies gone, expect the remaining work to be small: palette and provider-tile handling, and keeping the bundled JavaScript current.
tsibble
0.0ANALYTICS
tsibble shipped one release in five and a half years - the data structure is finished
◆ Current state
tsibble defines the tidy time-series data structure that fable and feasts are built on. The design churned heavily through 2018 and 2019, settled with the 0.9.0 move onto vctrs in mid-2020, and then went quiet: the next release, 1.2.0, arrived in February 2026 with a summary() method and some tidyselect helpers.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a package that reached its final shape and stopped. The early releases are a rapid sequence of breaking changes to the key and interval metadata, each one warning that previously stored objects are corrupt; once the interval became a formal vctrs record type there was nothing structural left to change. The five-year gap is the trajectory, not a lapse.
◆ Prediction
Expect further releases to be small compatibility and convenience additions at long intervals; with the type system settled and windowing delegated to slider, there is no visible pressure for another breaking change.
Alternatives to leaflet and tsibble
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 leaflet or tsibble.
discrim
discrim settled into a thin engine shim after handing its model definitions to parsnip.
dbparser
dbparser shed its database and CSV writers to become just a DrugBank parser.
desirability2
desirability2 is making multi-metric model selection a first-class tidymodels step.
crosstalk
crosstalk is frozen infrastructure: four releases in five years, mostly CRAN upkeep.
cmdstanr
cmdstanr keeps adding fast approximations beside full HMC, and fighting Windows toolchains.
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Recent activity from leaflet and tsibble
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 6mo agotsibblesummary() for time classes; sequential column construction
- 11mo agoleafletMIT relicensing and sp dropped from default installs ⚡
- 2y agoleafletterra CRS handling fixed; raster images accept layer options
- 2y agoleafletProvider tile dependency is cacheable by knitr again
- 2y agoleafletAdds terra support and removes rgdal and rgeos
- 3y agoleafletUpdates proj4.js and fixes examples to stay on CRAN
- 6y agotsibbleInterval becomes a vctrs record type; windowing moves to slider ⚡
- 7y agotsibbleLifecycle badges and yearweek string parsing
- 7y agotsibblePatch fixes for renaming, single-row and duplicate-index cases
- 7y agotsibbleindex_by() groups the index; unnest_tsibble() added
- 7y agotsibbleMetadata overhaul folds regular into interval, ordered into index
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between leaflet and tsibble?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. leaflet and tsibble 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 leaflet better than tsibble?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. leaflet and tsibble 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 leaflet?
Top leaflet alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "leaflet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/leaflet-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to tsibble?
Top tsibble alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "tsibble alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tsibble for the full list with editorial commentary on each.