R Observatory: Metrics for appeears version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

appeears

1.2Package record

Interface to 'AppEEARS' NASA Web Services

0packages depend

4.1Kdownloads / year

22.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Koen HufkensCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: BlueGreen Labs

Programmatic interface to the NASA Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples services (AppEEARS; https://appeears.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/). The package provides easy access to analysis ready earth observation data in R.

Install

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

install.packages("appeears", 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("bluegreen-labs/appeears")

Development version from bluegreen-labs/appeears. 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-appeears

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-appeears

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-21
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 27%3 run in a plain check · 8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

AppEEARS functionality HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,039 · ~11/day · ~345/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39530 days

1.1K90 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on113 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bluegreen-labs/appeears ↗Organization: bluegreen-labs

15Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

192Commits

2Commit identities

apidata-sciencer-packageremote-sensingrstats

192 commits · Last activity 2026-01-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-17 · 142026-07-07 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bluegreen-labs/appeears on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing appeears adds 64 packages (44 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (9)

httr keyring memoise getPass R6 sf jsonlite geojsonio rstudioapi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

rmarkdown covr testthat terra ncdf4 knitr rlang dplyr ggplot2 patchwork

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 (3)

Koen Hufkens

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2023)

Elio Campitelli

Contributor

BlueGreen Labs

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-09-15 · diff ↗ ·
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-22
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 227 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("appeears")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.7938190.

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 appeears version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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