R Observatory: Metrics for IceSat2R version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

IceSat2R

1.1.0

'ICESat-2' Altimeter Data using R

0packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

29.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Lampros MouselimisFirst published 2022-02-0711 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Programmatic connection to the 'OpenAltimetry' API https://openaltimetry.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/data/openapi/swagger-ui/index.html/ to download and process 'ATL03' (Global 'Geolocated' Photon Data), 'ATL06' (Land Ice Height), 'ATL07' (Sea Ice Height), 'ATL08' (Land and Vegetation Height), 'ATL10' (Sea Ice 'Freeboard'), 'ATL12' (Ocean Surface Height) and 'ATL13' (Inland Water Surface Height) 'ICESat-2' Altimeter Data. The user has the option to download the data by selecting a bounding box from a 1- or 5-degree grid globally utilizing a shiny application. The 'ICESat-2' mission collects 'altimetry' data of the Earth's surface. The sole instrument on 'ICESat-2' is the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument that measures ice sheet elevation change and sea ice thickness, while also generating an estimate of global vegetation biomass. 'ICESat-2' continues the important observations of ice-sheet elevation change, sea-ice 'freeboard', and vegetation canopy height begun by 'ICESat' in 2003.

Install

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

install.packages("IceSat2R", 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("mlampros/IceSat2R")

Development version from mlampros/IceSat2R. 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-icesat2r

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-IceSat2R

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-IceSat2R

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.15

29.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

22

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
OK2026-06-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-30
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,158 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 22%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 64%

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,893 · ~15/day · ~453/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mlampros/icesat2r

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175Commits

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License GPL-3.0 · 175 commits · Last activity 2026-05-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Automation and maintenance (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (22)

glue sf lwgeom units data.table httrutilsforeachtoolsdoParallel magrittr leaflet leafgl htmltools htmlwidgets leafsync miniUI shiny rnaturalearth lubridate rvest withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

rmarkdown knitr DT mapviewgrDevicesstargazer reshape2 plotly geodist CopernicusDEM terra testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Lampros Mouselimis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Lampros Mouselimis

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

OpenAltimetry.org

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.1.0Latest
2026-06-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.9
2026-03-05 · diff ↗
1.0.8
2026-02-20 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-02-20
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-02-19
requires archived package 'leaflet.extras'
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.7
2025-02-15 · diff ↗
1.0.6
2024-08-17 · diff ↗
1.0.5
2024-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.4
2022-11-17 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2022-08-08 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2022-07-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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1.0.1
2022-03-05 · diff ↗
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2022-02-07
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-07
Total releases: 11 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.0 MB / 3 files
Download size: 3.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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citation("IceSat2R")

Format

Mouselimis, L., & OpenAltimetry.org. (2026). IceSat2R: 'ICESat-2' Altimeter Data using R (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.IceSat2R

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for IceSat2R version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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