RadioSonde

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Tools for Plotting Skew-T Diagrams and Wind Profiles

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Overview

About

Maintained by Doug NychkaFirst published 2002-02-0812 releasesCRAN page ↗

A collection of programs for plotting SKEW-T,log p diagrams and wind profiles for data collected by radiosondes (the typical weather balloon-borne instrument). The format of this plot with companion lines to assess atmospheric stability are both standard in meteorology and difficult to create from basic graphics functions. Hence this package. One novel feature is being able add several profiles to the same plot for comparison. Use "help(ExampleSonde)" for an explanation of the variables needed and how they should be named in a data frame. See https://github.com/dnychka/Radiosonde for the package home page.

Install

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

install.packages("RadioSonde", 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-radiosonde

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-RadioSonde

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-RadioSonde

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

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Listed in earlier versions (5)

Eric Gilleland

no longer listed · 1.2 to 4.2

Tim Hoar

no longer listed · 1.2 to 4.2

Doug Nychka

no longer listed · 1.2 to 4.2

Liangying Zhang

no longer listed · 1.3 to 4.2

Kate Young

no longer listed · 4.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2002-02-08
Total releases: 12 / 24 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 236 KB / 2 files
Download size: 332 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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