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BLRPM

1.0

Stochastic Rainfall Generator Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulse Model

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Overview

About

Maintained by Christoph Ritschel1 releasesCRAN page ↗

Due to a limited availability of observed high-resolution precipitation records with adequate length, simulations with stochastic precipitation models are used to generate series for subsequent studies [e.g. Khaliq and Cunmae, 1996, doi:10.1016/0022-1694(95)02894-3, Vandenberghe et al., 2011, doi:10.1029/2009WR008388]. This package contains an R implementation of the original Bartlett-Lewis rectangular pulse model (BLRPM), developed by Rodriguez-Iturbe et al. (1987) doi:10.1098/rspa.1987.0039. It contains a function for simulating a precipitation time series based on storms and cells generated by the model with given or estimated model parameters. Additionally BLRPM parameters can be estimated from a given or simulated precipitation time series. The model simulations can be plotted in a three-layer plot including an overview of generated storms and cells by the model (which can also be plotted individually), a continuous step-function and a discrete precipitation time series at a chosen aggregation level.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/BLRPM/BLRPM_1.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "BLRPM_1.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-blrpm

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BLRPM

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-27
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0
2026-03-10
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

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Total releases: 1
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 15 KB
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