R Observatory: Metrics for bioRad version 0.12.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bioRad

0.12.0Package record

Biological Analysis and Visualization of Weather Radar Data

1packages depend

7.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adriaan M. DokterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Extract, visualize and summarize aerial movements of birds and insects from weather radar data. See Dokter, A. M. et al. (2018) "bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data" doi:10.1111/ecog.04028 for a software paper describing package and methodologies.

Install

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

install.packages("bioRad", 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("adokter/bioRad")

Development version from adokter/bioRad. 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-biorad

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 11.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-17
OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-20

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-18
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-10
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-16
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-13
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.12.0

READMEYes · 626 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.12.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 94 (20 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%67 run in a plain check · 9 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,624 · ~20/day · ~618/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

73630 days

1.8K90 days

7.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.6K r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

adokter/biorad ↗Account: adokter

31Stars

21Forks

55Open issues

8Open PRs

20Releases

3,465Commits

21Commit identities

rpackageradaraeroecologymovement-ecologyenramnexradeumetnet-opera

3,465 commits · Last activity 2026-07-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.12.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.12.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 826
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-09-27 · 292026-07-07 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/adokter/biorad 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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bioRad adds 69 packages (44 with compiled code, 74 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (29)

assertthat curl dplyr fields ggplot2 gluegraphicshttr2 jsonlite lifecycle lubridate lutzmethodsraster readr rhdf5 rlang sf spstatsstringr suntools terra tidyr tidyselectutilsviridis viridisLite xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

elevatr getRad ggspatial knitr prettymapr rmarkdown rosm testthat vdiffr vol2birdR withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

getRad

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (14)

Adriaan M. Dokter

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2018)

Peter Desmet

Author

Bart Kranstauber

Author · added in 0.5.0

Cecilia Nilsson

Author · added in 0.5.2

Alexander Tedeschi

Author · added in 0.7.1

Stijn Van Hoey

Author

Bart Hoekstra

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Pieter Huybrechts

Contributor · added in 0.7.1

Hidde Leijnse

Contributor

Nicolas Noé

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Raphaël Nussbaumer

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jurriaan Spaaks

Contributor

Lourens Veen

Contributor

Liesbeth Verlinden

Contributor

Releases (17)

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0.12.0Latest
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2026-06-13 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
add_param
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.11.0
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2025-08-29 · diff ↗
0.10.0
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2025-06-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.1
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0.9.0
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2025-03-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
as.vp, clean_mixture, filter_precip
0.8.1
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2024-07-30 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-07-27
0.8.0
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2024-07-27 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-07-06
policy violation Writes in user's home directory Also, does not use Suggests conditionally
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7.3
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2023-10-20 · diff ↗
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2023-09-06 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-07-17
0.7.1
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2023-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
as.vpts, list_vpts_aloft, read_stdout

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-07-07
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6.2
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2022-12-17 · diff ↗
0.6.1
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2022-08-31 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2022-05-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 33 exports
basemap, beamheight, beamwidth, bind, checkDocker, cmt, composite, day, dbz2eta, download_vp, elangle, eta2dbz, fetch, getscan, h5ODIMobject, is.vplist, mt, mtr, night, ppi, read.pvol, readvp, readvp.list, readvp.table, regularize, retrieve_vp_paths, rsl2odim, sd_vvp, suntime, updateDocker and 3 more

added 5 exports
attribute_table, download_pvolfiles, get_iris_raw_task, is.vpi, write_pvolfile
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.5.2
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2020-05-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
convert_legacy, doy, noy
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-04-01
0.5.1
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2020-04-01 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-03-19
check problems were not corrected in time
0.5.0
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2020-02-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
apply_mistnet, beam_distance, beam_profile, beam_profile_overlap, beam_range, calculate_param, filter_vpts, integrate_to_ppi, nyquist_velocity, scan_to_raster, scan_to_spatial, vol2bird_version
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.0
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2018-12-14
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-14
Total releases: 17 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 4 files
Download size: 4.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bioRad")

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

It points to 10.1111/ecog.04028.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 bioRad version 0.12.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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