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another sweet port from Kyle! A touch of background on the original, for those interested: knaaptime.com/urban_analys...

knaaptime.com33 Spatial Optimization – Urban Analysis & Spatial Science

Kyle Walker@kylewalker.bsky.social

Announcing spopt-r: spatial optimization for regionalization, facility location, and market analysis in R. My all-time favorite Python package is PySAL's spopt - and until now, it did not have an R equivalent. Get started here: walker-data.com/spopt-r

7/1/26, 8:01 pm2 reposts12 likes

Kyle Walker

@kylewalker.bsky.social

7 Jan

Thanks Eli! Just trying to pay homage to the awesome work you all have done!

eli knaap

@knaaptime.com

7 Jan

great work as usual. It's using the rust interface to HiGHS?

Kyle Walker

@kylewalker.bsky.social

yes it is!

as one who had a quick perusal in the R package, the rust crate automatically builds the high C++ directly so you don't need to have the library pre-installed! There's also a high-level crate too which is nifty crates.io/crates/good_lp

crates.iocrates.io: Rust Package Registry