R Observatory: Metrics for RivRetrieve version 0.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RivRetrieve

0.1.9

Retrieve Global River Gauge Data

0packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

2.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryan RiggsFirst published 2023-11-038 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides access to global river gauge data from a variety of national-level river agencies. The package interfaces with the national-level agency websites to provide access to river gauge locations, river discharge, and river stage. Currently, the package is available for the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Install

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

install.packages("RivRetrieve", 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("Ryan-Riggs/RivRetrieve")

Development version from Ryan-Riggs/RivRetrieve. 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-rivretrieve

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-RivRetrieve

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-RivRetrieve

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

2.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

17

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 47 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,506 · ~11/day · ~347/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19630 days

1.2K90 days

4.2K1 year

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Also on131 r2u18 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ ryan-riggs/rivretrieve

15Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

249Commits

2Contributors

249 commits · Last activity 2026-03-17

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ryan-riggs/rivretrieve on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (17)

BBmisc dataRetrieval data.table devtools dplyr httr jsonlite lubridate readr rlang rlist RSelenium rvest stringr tibble tidyhydat tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Ryan Riggs

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Author, Maintainer

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Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.9Latest
2026-03-11 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.8
2026-02-25 · diff ↗
0.1.7
2026-02-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.6
2025-01-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.5
2024-04-23 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2024-03-02 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-03-02
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-02-29
policy violation On Internet access
0.1.3
2023-11-14 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2023-11-03
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-03
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 867 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RivRetrieve")

Format

Riggs, R., Allen, G., Moulds, S., Slater, L., & Wortmann, M. (2026). RivRetrieve: Retrieve Global River Gauge Data (Version 0.1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RivRetrieve

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 RivRetrieve version 0.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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