R Observatory: Metrics for cmsafvis version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cmsafvis

1.3.0Package record

Tools to Visualize CM SAF NetCDF Data

1packages dependsuggested by 1

6.3Kdownloads / year

0.3%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Steffen KotheCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) is a ground segment of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and one of EUMETSATs Satellite Application Facilities. The CM SAF contributes to the sustainable monitoring of the climate system by providing essential climate variables related to the energy and water cycle of the atmosphere (https://www.cmsaf.eu). It is a joint cooperation of eight National Meteorological and Hydrological Services. The 'cmsafvis' R-package provides a collection of R-operators for the analysis and visualization of CM SAF NetCDF data. CM SAF climate data records are provided for free via (https://wui.cmsaf.eu/safira). Detailed information and test data are provided on the CM SAF webpage (http://www.cmsaf.eu/R_toolbox).

Changes in 1.3.0

Added option to change textsize in figures via Toolbox (cmsaf R-package)
Adapt quicklook config for anomalies
Bug fix: time period for fieldmean plots
Added option to plot trends using significance mask
Bug fix: Fixing white lines in map plots
Bug fix: Fix issue in render_region_plot to use own shapefiles

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cmsafvis", 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("cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools")

Development version from cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools. 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-cmsafvis

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-cmsafvis

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-cmsafvis

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  cmsafvis/R/reset_par.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 32includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 29%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,141 · ~17/day · ~524/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

58730 days

1.6K90 days

6.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on97 r2u14 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools ↗Organization: cmsaf

3Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

128Commits

6Commit identities

128 commits · Last activity 2026-09-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/cmsaf/cmsaf-r-tools on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cmsafvis adds 52 packages (34 with compiled code, 47 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, fields 3.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (18)

assertthat cmsafops colorspace (>= 1.4)countrycode fields mapproj (>= 1.2.7)mapsmethodsncdf4 png progress raster sf sp RColorBrewer rasterVis gridExtrautils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

animation FNN lwgeom rainfarmr rnaturalearth SearchTrees spelling testthat yaml

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

cmsaf

Suggests, most downloaded first

cmsafops

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Steffen Kothe

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

Danny Parsons

Contributor · added in 1.1.7

Releases (19)

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1.1.9
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2021-12-02 · diff ↗ ·
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get_basename_vis
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added 16 exports
cmsaf.diff, cmsaf.hist, cmsaf.hovmoller, cmsaf.scatter, cmsaf.side.by.side, cmsaf.time.series, helper_time_series_compare, render_plot_1d_advanced, render_plot_hist_compare, render_plot_hovmoller, render_plot_scatter, render_plot_side_by_side, render_plot_time_series_compare, time_series_plot, trend_plot, warming_stripes_plot
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Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-06
Total releases: 19 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 295 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("cmsafvis")

Format

Kothe, S., & Parsons, D. (2025). cmsafvis: Tools to Visualize CM SAF NetCDF Data (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cmsafvis

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cmsafvis version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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