R Observatory: Metrics for StreamCatTools version 0.12.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

StreamCatTools

0.12.0

Tools for Working with 'StreamCat' and 'LakeCat' Data

0packages dependsuggested by 2

12.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marc WeberCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools for using the 'StreamCat' and 'LakeCat' API and interacting with the 'StreamCat' and 'LakeCat' database. Convenience functions in the package wrap the API for 'StreamCat' on https://api.epa.gov/StreamCat/streams/metrics.

Changes in 0.12.0

Replaced sc_get_comid with a new REST service implementation using the EPA NHDPlus NP21 simplified catchments layer.
Added a count_metrics helper function
Added MIT license for package
Refactored sc_get_data and lc_get_data slightly for improved functionality (based on https://github.com/pauldzy/StreamCatTools)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("StreamCatTools", 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("USEPA/StreamCatTools")

Development version from USEPA/StreamCatTools. 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-streamcattools

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-StreamCatTools

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-StreamCatTools

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: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-06
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-23
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.12.0

READMEYes · 396 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.12.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 0%2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 14 never run
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

StartHere HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

12.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,714 · ~33/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.8K30 days

5.4K90 days

12.1K1 year

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Also on109 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

usepa/streamcattools ↗Organization: USEPA

41Stars

15Forks

12Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

338Commits

6Commit identities

streamcatow

338 commits · Last activity 2026-10-05 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 66
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-11 · 392026-09-03 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/usepa/streamcattools on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS and Windows

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-05

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-29, before release 0.12.0 (2026-10-02)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing StreamCatTools adds 78 packages (45 with compiled code, 82 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

sf hydrogeofetch jsonlite httr2 curl ggpattern patchwork cowplot tigris ggplot2 dplyr tidyr stringr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

mapview testthat knitr rmarkdown devtools xml2 magrittr readr purrr lifecycle tidyselect DBI duckdb tictocstatswk

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

nhdplusTools hydrogeofetch

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Marc Weber

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2025)

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 0.10.0

Justin Bousquin

Contributor · added in 0.11.0

Michael Dumelle

Contributor · added in 0.8.0

David Rebhuhn

Contributor

Zachary Smith

Contributor

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.12.0Latest
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2026-10-02 · current release · diff ↗
0.11.0
record
2026-05-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
lc_nlcd, sc_nlcd

added 1 export
lc_get_watershed
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.10.0
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2026-01-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
lc_get_nlcd, lc_get_nni, lc_plotnni, sc_get_nlcd, sc_get_nni, sc_plotnni
0.9.1
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2025-10-25 · diff ↗
0.9.0
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2025-10-16 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2025-10-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
lc_get_metric_names, sc_get_metric_names
0.7.0
record
2025-09-15 · diff ↗
0.6.0
record
2025-09-02
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-02
Total releases: 8 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from CC0 in 0.12.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("StreamCatTools")

Format

Weber, M., Bousquin, J., Brookes, A., Dumelle, M., Hill, R., Hudson, T., Markley, S., Rebhuhn, D., & Smith, Z. (2026). StreamCatTools: Tools for Working with 'StreamCat' and 'LakeCat' Data (Version 0.12.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.StreamCatTools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for StreamCatTools version 0.12.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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