R Observatory: Metrics for GSODR version 5.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GSODR

5.0.1

Global Surface Summary of the Day ('GSOD') Weather Data Client

1packages depend

11.7Kdownloads / year

94.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam H. SparksFirst published 2016-04-2052 releasesCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗

Provides automated downloading, parsing, cleaning, unit conversion and formatting of Global Surface Summary of the Day ('GSOD') weather data from the from the USA National Centers for Environmental Information ('NCEI'). The data were retired on 2025-08-29 and are no longer updated. Units are converted from from United States Customary System ('USCS') units to International System of Units ('SI'). Stations may be individually checked for number of missing days defined by the user, where stations with too many missing observations are omitted. Only stations with valid reported latitude and longitude values are permitted in the final data. Additional useful elements, saturation vapour pressure ('es'), actual vapour pressure ('ea') and relative humidity ('RH') are calculated from the original data using the improved August-Roche-Magnus approximation (Alduchov & Eskridge 1996) and included in the final data set. The resulting metadata include station identification information, country, state, latitude, longitude, elevation, weather observations and associated flags. For information on the 'GSOD' data from 'NCEI', please see the 'GSOD' 'readme.txt' file available from, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/readme.txt.

Install

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

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

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

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-gsodr

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

# 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-GSODR

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-GSODR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.37

94.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,010 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,142 · ~32/day · ~978/mo

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Repository

Codeberg ↗ ropensci/gsodr

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository codeberg.org/ropensci/gsodr is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

cli curl data.table R.utilsstatsutilswithr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

bit64 dplyr ggplot2 gridExtra knitr mapproj maps rmarkdown roxyglobals spelling testthat tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

apsimx

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Adam H. Sparks

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.1.0

Authors (3)

Adam H. Sparks

Author, Maintainer · added in 3.1.0

Tomislav Hengl

Author

Andrew Nelson

Author · added in 1.0.0

Contributors (7)

Ross Darnell

Contributor · added in 1.2.1

Gwenael Giboire

Contributor · added in 1.2.1

Taras Kaduk

Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Wenbo Lv

Contributor · added in 5.0.0

Hugh Parsonage

Copyright holder, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Łukasz Pawlik

Contributor

Tyler Widdison

Contributor · added in 2.1.2

Copyright holders (2)

Hugh Parsonage

Copyright holder, Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Curtin University

Funder, Copyright holder · added in 3.1.10

Funders (1)

Curtin University

Funder, Copyright holder · added in 3.1.10

Listed in earlier versions (6)

Andy Nelson

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.1.9

Adam Sparks

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 3.0.0

Kay Sumfleth

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.1.9

Bob Rudis

no longer listed · 1.1.0 to 1.3.2

Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA)

no longer listed · 3.1.7 to 3.1.9

Grains Research and Development Corporation

no longer listed · 4.1.4 to 5.0.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-20
Total releases: 52 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 3.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Hydrological Data and Modeling

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Format

Sparks, A. H., Curtin University, Darnell, R., Giboire, G., Hengl, T., Kaduk, T., Lv, W., Nelson, A., Parsonage, H., Pawlik, Ł., & Widdison, T. (2026). GSODR: Global Surface Summary of the Day ('GSOD') Weather Data Client (Version 5.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GSODR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GSODR version 5.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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