R Observatory: Metrics for chirps version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

chirps

1.1Package record

API Client for CHIRPS and CHIRTS

0packages dependsuggested by 4

11.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kauê de SousaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

API Client for the Climate Hazards Center 'CHIRPS' and 'CHIRTS'. The 'CHIRPS' data is a quasi-global (50°S – 50°N) high-resolution (0.05 arc-degrees) rainfall data set, which incorporates satellite imagery and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. 'CHIRTS' is a quasi-global (60°S – 70°N), high-resolution data set of daily maximum and minimum temperatures. For more details on 'CHIRPS' and 'CHIRTS' data please visit its official home page https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data.

Changes in 1.1

Housekeeping version to refresh libraries and formats as part of CRAN guidelines updates.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("chirps", 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("ropensci/chirps")

Development version from ropensci/chirps. 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-chirps

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-chirps

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-chirps

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 10.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check (6 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to chirps HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,736 · ~32/day · ~961/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

77330 days

2.6K90 days

11.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on108 r2u16 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/chirps ↗Organization: ropensci

39Stars

14Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

360Commits

5Commit identities

climatologyprecipitation-datarstatschirps

360 commits · Last activity 2026-06-23 · +2.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0, ahead of CRAN 1.1 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 24
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-12 · 312026-09-29 · 39

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/chirps on 2026-10-25.

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 conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-23

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing chirps adds 18 packages (15 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (5)

httr jsonlite sfstatsterra

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

climatrends knitr markdown rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

apsimx climatrends gosset AgriFusionR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Kauê de Sousa

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Aniruddha Ghosh

Author · added in 0.1.4

Adam H. Sparks

Author

William Ashmall

Contributor

API Client implementation

Pete Peterson

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

API Client implementation

Svein Ø. Solberg

Thesis advisor

Jacob van Etten

Thesis advisor

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1Latest
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2025-11-24 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.4
record
2022-01-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_chirts
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2
record
2020-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
dataframe_to_geojson, sf_to_geojson

added 1 export
as.geojson
0.1.0
record
2020-07-03
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-03
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 51 KB / 1 file
Download size: 871 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("chirps")

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

It points to 10.21105/joss.02419.

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 chirps version 1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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