R Observatory: Metrics for FedData version 4.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FedData

4.3.0Package record

Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

0packages dependsuggested by 1

11.2Kdownloads / year

1.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by R. Kyle BocinskyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Download geospatial data available from several federated data sources (mainly sources maintained by the US Federal government). Currently, the package enables extraction from nine datasets: The National Elevation Dataset digital elevation models (https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program 1 and 1/3 arc-second; USGS); The National Hydrography Dataset (https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset; USGS); The Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database from the National Cooperative Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/; NCSS), which is led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the USDA; the Global Historical Climatology Network (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global-historical-climatology-network-daily; GHCN), coordinated by National Climatic Data Center at NOAA; the Daymet gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, version 4, available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Distributed Active Archive Center (https://daymet.ornl.gov/; DAAC); the International Tree Ring Data Bank; the National Land Cover Database (https://www.mrlc.gov/; NLCD); the Cropland Data Layer from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php; NASS); and the PAD-US dataset of protected area boundaries (https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-overview; USGS).

Changes in 4.3.0

Updated get_padus() to pull PAD-US 4.0 data. Closes Issue #124.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("FedData", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/FedData")

Development version from ropensci/FedData. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-feddata

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-FedData

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-FedData

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.3.0

READMEYes · 424 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 41 (27 internal)
Examples that run: 7%1 run in a plain check · 13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 37%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,699 · ~31/day · ~934/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.6K90 days

11.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on120 r2u5 autocran132 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/feddata ↗Organization: ropensci

104Stars

23Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

614Commits

10Commit identities

rrstatsr-packagepeer-reviewed

614 commits · Last activity 2026-06-12 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.4.0, ahead of CRAN 4.3.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 34
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-07 · 1032026-07-22 · 104

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/feddata on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-10
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 11 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 511 commits · Jun 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FedData adds 60 packages (39 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

curl httr dplyr tibble tidyr stringr igraph xml2 lifecycle lubridate progress purrr readr terra sf ggplot2 glue magrittr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

arcgislayers knitr leaflet mapview ncdf4 rmapshaper testthat usethis

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

wxgenR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

R. Kyle Bocinsky

Dylan Beaudette

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor, Reviewer · added in 3.0.0

Jeffrey Hollister

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Julia Gustavsen

Reviewer · added in 3.0.0

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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R. Kyle Bocinsky Dylan Beaudette

no longer listed · 1.1.0 to 2.0.3

Beaudette

no longer listed · 2.0.4 to 2.5.7

Bocinsky

no longer listed · 2.0.4 to 4.3.0

Chamberlain

no longer listed · 2.0.5 to 2.5.7

Releases (40)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.3.0Latest
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2025-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
4.2.0
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2024-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
agol_filter, agol_filter_httr
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-11-11
4.1.0
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2024-11-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_nlcd_annual
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-08-19
requires archived package 'arcgislayers'
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-17 · diff ↗
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2023-10-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spdf_from_polygon

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get_padus
3.0.4
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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3.0.0
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2022-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
SDA_query, download_daymet_tile, download_huc4, download_ned_tile, download_nhd_subregion, download_nlcd_tile, get_daymet_tile, get_huc4, get_nhd_subregion, get_nlcd_tile, pkg_test

added 12 exports
%>%, cdl_colors, check_service, get_cdl, get_nass, get_nass_cdl, get_wbd, nlcd_colors, plot_nhd, replace_null, split_bbox, url_base

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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SDA_query, pal_nlcd
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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added 3 exports
download_nlcd_tile, get_nlcd, get_nlcd_tile
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2.3.0
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2016-10-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
download_daymet_tile, get_daymet, get_daymet_tile
2.2.0
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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curl_download

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download_data
2.0.4
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added 2 exports
station_to_data_frame, unwrap_rows
2.0.1
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2.0.0
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2015-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 30 exports
getGHCNDaily, downloadGHCNDailyStation, getGHCNDailyStation, getGHCNInventory, getITRDB, downloadITRDB, read.crn, read.crn.metadata, read.crn.data, getNED, downloadNEDTile, getNEDTile, getNHD, downloadHUC4, getHUC4, downloadNHDSubregion, getNHDSubregion, getSSURGO, downloadSSURGOInventory, getSSURGOInventory, downloadSSURGOStudyArea, getSSURGOStudyArea, extractSSURGOData, pkgTest, substrRight, polygonFromExtent, SPDFfromPolygon, sequential.duplicated, wgetDownload, curlDownload

added 29 exports
get_ghcn_daily, download_ghcn_daily_station, get_ghcn_daily_station, get_ghcn_inventory, get_itrdb, download_itrdb, read_crn, read_crn_metadata, read_crn_data, get_ned, download_ned_tile, get_ned_tile, get_nhd, download_huc4, get_huc4, download_nhd_subregion, get_nhd_subregion, get_ssurgo, download_ssurgo_inventory, get_ssurgo_inventory, download_ssurgo_study_area, get_ssurgo_study_area, extract_ssurgo_data, pkg_test, substr_right, polygon_from_extent, spdf_from_polygon, sequential_duplicated, curl_download
1.1.0
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2015-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 30 exports
getGHCNDaily, downloadGHCNDailyStation, getGHCNDailyStation, getGHCNInventory, getITRDB, downloadITRDB, read.crn, read.crn.metadata, read.crn.data, getNED, downloadNEDTile, getNEDTile, getNHD, downloadHUC4, getHUC4, downloadNHDSubregion, getNHDSubregion, getSSURGO, downloadSSURGOInventory, getSSURGOInventory, downloadSSURGOStudyArea, getSSURGOStudyArea, extractSSURGOData, pkgTest, substrRight, polygonFromExtent, SPDFfromPolygon, sequential.duplicated, wgetDownload, curlDownload
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-13
Total releases: 40 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 2.0.4
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 4.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB

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citation("FedData")

Format

Bocinsky, R. K., Beaudette, D., Chamberlain, S., Gustavsen, J., & Hollister, J. (2025). FedData: Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources (Version 4.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.FedData

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FedData version 4.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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