R Observatory: Metrics for cft version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cft needs epitools, which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 2.

cft

1.0.0Package record

Climate Futures Toolbox

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

1.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Erick VerleyeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Developed as a collaboration between Earth lab and the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center to help users gain insights from available climate data. Includes tools and instructions for downloading climate data via a 'USGS' API and then organizing those data for visualization and analysis that drive insight. Web interface for 'USGS' API can be found at http://thredds.northwestknowledge.net:8080/thredds/reacch_climate_CMIP5_aggregated_macav2_catalog.html.

Install

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

install.packages("cft", 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("earthlab/cft-CRAN")

Development version from earthlab/cft-CRAN. 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-cft

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-cft

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Erick Verleye <erve3705@colorado.edu>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 2,027 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Using available data function HTML
Using Firehose Function HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,376 · ~8/day · ~245/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26530 days

76090 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

earthlab/cft-cran ↗Organization: earthlab

0Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

19Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 19 commits · Last activity 2022-09-30

Responsiveness

not measured

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/earthlab/cft-cran on 2026-10-18.

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cft adds 59 packages (36 with compiled code, 51 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (5)

R >= 3.5.0plyr dplyr osmdata magrittr

Imports (9)

tidync future furrr sf epitools tidyr rlang pipeR rlist

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

lubridate testthat knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

epitoolsfix by Nov 2

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Erick Verleye

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.0Latest
record
2022-10-03 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-03
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 466 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("cft")

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

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 cft version 1.0.0 [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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