R Observatory: Metrics for VIC5 version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VIC5

0.2.6Package record

The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Hydrological Model

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

39.4%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dongdong KongCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model is a macroscale hydrologic model that solves full water and energy balances, originally developed by Xu Liang at the University of Washington (UW). The version of VIC source code used is of 5.0.1 on https://github.com/UW-Hydro/VIC/, see Hamman et al. (2018). Development and maintenance of the current official version of the VIC model at present is led by the UW Hydro (Computational Hydrology group) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW. VIC is a research model and in its various forms it has been applied to most of the major river basins around the world, as well as globally http://vic.readthedocs.io/en/master/Documentation/References/. References: "Liang, X., D. P. Lettenmaier, E. F. Wood, and S. J. Burges (1994), A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models, J. Geophys. Res., 99(D7), 14415-14428, doi:10.1029/94JD00483"; "Hamman, J. J., Nijssen, B., Bohn, T. J., Gergel, D. R., and Mao, Y. (2018), The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3481-3496, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-3481-2018".

Changes in 0.2.6

change sprintf to snprintf

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("VIC5", 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("rpkgs/VIC5")

Development version from rpkgs/VIC5. 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-vic5

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-VIC5

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-VIC5

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) vic_param.Rd:311: Lost braces
   311 | albedo must be supplied in code{forcing_veg}. Default = 1.}
       |                                ^
checkRd: (-1) vic_param.Rd:323: Lost braces
   323 | supplied in code{forcing_veg}. Default = 1.}
       |                 ^
checkRd: (-1) vic_param.Rd:341: Lost braces
   341 | be supplied in code{forcing_veg} Default = 0.}
       |                    ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
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 0.2.6

READMEYes · 376 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 17%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 56%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,942 · ~8/day · ~239/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33030 days

86890 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on353 r2u6 autocran111 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

CUG-hydro/VIC5.R ↗Organization: CUG-hydro

Moved from rpkgs/vic5.

10Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

49Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 49 commits · Last activity 2026-01-23 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.7, ahead of CRAN 0.2.6 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 32

Stars over time

2024-09-18 · 82026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rpkgs/vic5 on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VIC5 adds 8 packages (4 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB, lubridate 420 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (5)

statsutilslubridate Rcpp foreach

LinkingTo (2)

RcppArmadillo Rcpp

Suggests (2)

testthat doParallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Dongdong Kong

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2021)

Author, Contributor

Author, Contributor

Author, Contributor

Author, Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor and maintainer of VIC source code

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
0.2.6Latest
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2023-02-17 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.5
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2022-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.4
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2021-12-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
XAJ, XAJ.param.range
0.2.3
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2021-09-13 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2021-09-13
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-13
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: See inst/COPYRIGHTS in the package
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 455 KB / 2 files
Download size: 765 KB

Appears in task views

Hydrological Data and Modeling

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("VIC5")

Format

Kong, D., Chen, X., Cherkauer, K., Hamman, J. J., Lai, C., Wang, Z., & Zhong, R. (2023). VIC5: The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Hydrological Model (Version 0.2.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.VIC5

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

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 VIC5 version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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