R Observatory: Metrics for WaterBalanceR version 0.1.21

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WaterBalanceR

0.1.21

Calculate High Resolution Water Balance of Starch Potatoes

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3.1Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas PiernickeFirst published 2025-12-193 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Calculates the water balance of starch potatoes from Normalized Distance Vegetation Index (NDVI) images, German Weather Service (DWD) reference evapotranspiration, German Weather Service RADOLAN precipitation data and irrigation information. For more details see Piernicke et al. (2025) doi:10.3390/rs17183227.

Install

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

install.packages("WaterBalanceR", 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("thomasp-gfz/WaterBalanceR")

Development version from thomasp-gfz/WaterBalanceR. 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-waterbalancer

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-WaterBalanceR

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-WaterBalanceR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.06

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Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

29

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
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NOTE2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 5,113 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ thomasp-gfz/waterbalancer

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Last activity 2026-03-12

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

28 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (29)

raster sf janitor zoo lubridate stars ggplot2 tidyr rdwdutilsterra gridExtra httr RSelenium stringr rvest sp geosphere RCurlgrDevicestidyselect openeo magrittr jsonlite dplyr readxl scalesmethodsrlang

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knitr rmarkdown

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Thomas Piernicke

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Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.21Latest
2026-03-13 · current release · diff ↗
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0.1.19
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-19
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 8.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Piernicke, T. (2026). WaterBalanceR: Calculate High Resolution Water Balance of Starch Potatoes (Version 0.1.21) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.WaterBalanceR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for WaterBalanceR version 0.1.21 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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