R Observatory: Metrics for ICESat2VegR version 0.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ICESat2VegR

0.0.6Package record

ICESat-2 Data Analysis for Land and Vegetation

0packages depend

790downloads / year

14.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carlos Alberto SilvaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for downloading, reading, processing, visualizing, and exporting NASA's ICESat-2 ATL03 (Global Geolocated Photon Data) and ATL08 (Land and Vegetation Height) products. Supports photon- and segment-level analysis, spatial sampling, gridding, statistical and machine-learning modeling, and integration with 'Google Earth Engine' (https://earthengine.google.com/) for wall-to-wall mapping of vegetation structure and other land attributes.

Install

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

install.packages("ICESat2VegR", 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("carlos-alberto-silva/ICESat2VegR")

Development version from carlos-alberto-silva/ICESat2VegR. 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-icesat2vegr

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-ICESat2VegR

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-ICESat2VegR

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: 25.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-04
ERROR1 OK, 6 ERROR2026-09-12

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.6

READMEYes · 2,830 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 178 (41 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%72 run in a plain check (61 of them under a condition) · 16 never run
Exported functions with examples: 72%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 87%
Help pages citing references: 4% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

790

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,074 · ~2/day · ~66/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60830 days

79090 days

7901 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on41 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

carlos-alberto-silva/icesat2vegr ↗Account: carlos-alberto-silva

16Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

399Commits

7Commit identities

399 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · +6.7% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 694
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2026-09-11 · 152026-10-13 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/carlos-alberto-silva/icesat2vegr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-08-26
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Commits: at least 9 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 59 commits · Aug to Sep 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

43 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ICESat2VegR adds 74 packages (49 with compiled code, 62 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (24)

curl data.table sf fs getPass geojsonsf googledrive googleCloudStorageRgrDevicesjsonlite httr2 magrittr mathjaxrmethodsRcpp Rdpack R6 randomForest reticulate terra dplyr servr stringr xml2

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (21)

chromote devtools ggplot2gridgridExtra hdf5r htmlwidgets knitr leaflet leafsync lwgeom mapview png rmarkdown rstudioapi signal stars testthat webshot viridis withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Author, Contributor

Author, Contributor

Author, Copyright holder

Sunil Arya

Contributor, Copyright holder

Author of the bundled ANN library (src/)

Chuck Gantz

Contributor

Author of the lat/long to UTM conversion algorithm used in R/utmTools.R

Cole Krehbiel

Contributor

Author of the NASA data download routine adapted in R/ATLAS_dataDownload.R

David Mount

Contributor, Copyright holder

Author of the bundled ANN library (src/)

University of Maryland

Copyright holder

Copyright holder of the bundled ANN library (src/)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.0.6Latest
record
2026-10-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-09 00:53 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.0.4
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2026-10-06 · diff ↗
0.0.3
record
2026-09-28 · diff ↗
0.0.2
record
2026-09-18 · diff ↗
0.0.1
record
2026-09-11
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 19 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-11
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ICESat2VegR")

Format

Silva, C. A., University of Maryland, Alvites, C., Arya, S., Gantz, C., Gaskins, A. J., Hamamura, C., Krehbiel, C., & Mount, D. (2026). ICESat2VegR: ICESat-2 Data Analysis for Land and Vegetation (Version 0.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ICESat2VegR

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ICESat2VegR version 0.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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