R Observatory: Metrics for SpecsVerification version 0.5-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SpecsVerification

0.5-4Package record

Forecast Verification Routines for Ensemble Forecasts of Weather and Climate

2packages dependsuggested by 3

6.2Kdownloads / year

8.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan SiegertCRAN page ↗

A collection of forecast verification routines developed for the SPECS FP7 project. The emphasis is on comparative verification of ensemble forecasts of weather and climate.

Install

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

install.packages("SpecsVerification", 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-specsverification

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-SpecsVerification

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-SpecsVerification

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
NOTE14 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5-4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 51includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%28 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 37%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,873 · ~17/day · ~519/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72730 days

1.7K90 days

6.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on463 r2u4 autocran11.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SpecsVerification adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcppmethods

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

7indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

s2dv easyVerification

Suggests, most downloaded first

fairmetrics wxgenR ensemblepp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Stefan Siegert

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2014)

Jonas Bhend

Contributor · added in 0.5-0

Matteo De Felice

Contributor · added in 0.5-0

Igor Kroener

Contributor · added in 0.5-0

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.5-4Latest
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2026-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
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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 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5-3
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2020-02-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
EnsCorr
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.5-2
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2017-03-07 · diff ↗
0.5-1
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2017-02-28 · diff ↗
0.5-0
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2017-01-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
DressIgnSs, GaussCrpsDecomposition, Preprocess

added 13 exports
AbsErr, Auc, AucDiff, BrierDecomp, EnsQs, FairQs, ScoreDiff, SkillScore, SqErr, auc_cpp, aucdiff_cpp, dresscrps_cpp, enscrps_cpp
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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0.4-1
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2015-10-23 · diff ↗
0.4-0
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2015-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
Corr, CorrDiff, Preprocess
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.3-0
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2014-10-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
Detrend, EnsBrier, EnsBrierDiff, EnsBrierSs, EnsCrps, EnsCrpsDiff, EnsCrpss, EnsRps, EnsRpsDiff, EnsRpss, GenerateToyData
0.2-0
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2014-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
ClimEns, DressCrpss, DressIgnSs, FairBrierSs, FairCrpss, FairRpss, GaussCrpss
0.1-1
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2014-05-02
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-05-02
Total releases: 10 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 5.9 KB / 1 file
Download size: 54 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SpecsVerification")

Format

Siegert, S., Bhend, J., De Felice, M., & Kroener, I. (2026). SpecsVerification: Forecast Verification Routines for Ensemble Forecasts of Weather and Climate (Version 0.5-4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SpecsVerification

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

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SpecsVerification version 0.5-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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