R Observatory: Metrics for Rwofost version 0.8-7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Rwofost

0.8-7Package record

WOFOST Crop Growth Simulation Model

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert J. HijmansCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An implementation of the WOFOST ("World Food Studies") crop growth model. WOFOST is a dynamic simulation model that uses daily weather data, and crop, soil and management parameters to simulate crop growth and development. See De Wit et al. (2019) doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2018.06.018 for a recent review of the history and use of the model.

Install

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

install.packages("Rwofost", 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("cropmodels/Rwofost")

Development version from cropmodels/Rwofost. 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-rwofost

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-Rwofost

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-Rwofost

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: 3.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8-7

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 43%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,913 · ~9/day · ~273/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28030 days

84890 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on397 r2u4 autocran85 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

cropmodels/rwofost ↗Organization: cropmodels

21Stars

16Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

110Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 110 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · Default branch at 0.8-8, ahead of CRAN 0.8-7 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 353

Stars over time

2025-04-16 · 212026-07-07 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/cropmodels/rwofost on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Rwofost adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, meteor 632 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

meteormethodsRcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

terra raster

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Robert J. Hijmans

Maintainer since 0.5-4 (2020), Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Daniel van Kraalingen

Contributor

Tamme van der Wal

Contributor

Alterra, Wageningen-UR

Copyright holder

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-20
Total releases: 7 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 88 KB

Appears in task views

Agricultural Science

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Rwofost")

Format

Hijmans, R. J., Alterra, Wageningen-UR, Boogard, H., Fang, H., Noy, I. G. A. M., Rappoldt, C., de Wit, A., van Diepen, C. A., van Kraalingen, D., & van der Wal, T. (2025). Rwofost: WOFOST Crop Growth Simulation Model (Version 0.8-7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Rwofost

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Rwofost version 0.8-7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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