osrm.backend

The goal of osrm.backend is to be a companion to {osrm} R package https://github.com/riatelab/osrm:

• provide single line quick start with osmr_start() function that does everything automatically to run local OSRM backend server, no other setup is required;

• easily install osrm.backend on major operating systems (Linux, Windows, MacOS);

• provide wrapper functions to prepare data for osrm routing;

• provide wrapper to start/stop local OSRM backend server.

Installation

Install the latest stable release of osrm.backend from CRAN with:

# soon on CRAN, watch this space!

You can install the development version of osrm.backend from R Universe with:

install.packages('osrm.backend',
 repos = c('https://e-kotov.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')
)

or from GitHub repo with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("e-kotov/osrm.backend")

You can prepare the OpenStreetMap data for routing with one function osrm_start(<path_to_osm_file_or_folder_with_osm_file>), set the osrm.server option to http://localhost:5001/ and use all the {osrm} functions as usual. You do not need to have osrm-backend installed or have Docker to run osrm-backend from a container, everything is handled automatically an all major operating systems. Just follow the Get started guide. For advanced control over each step of the process, see the full function reference.