R Observatory: Metrics for cropgrowdays version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cropgrowdays

0.2.2Package record

Crop Growing Degree Days and Agrometeorological Calculations

0packages depend

4.2Kdownloads / year

53.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter BakerCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗Issues ↗

Calculate agrometeorological variables for crops including growing degree days (McMaster, GS & Wilhelm, WW (1997) doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(97)00027-0), cumulative rainfall, number of stress days and cumulative or mean radiation and evaporation. Convert dates to day of year and vice versa. Also, download curated and interpolated Australian weather data from the Queensland Government DES longpaddock website https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/. This data is freely available under the Creative Commons 4.0 licence.

Changes in 0.2.2

14 Oct 2025: changed link to 'tibble' to avoid anchor warning in R-devel
Changed obsolete URL: https://farmwest.com/climate/calculator-information/gdd/ (moved to https://farmwest.com/transition/bcagriweather/)
removed DOI for Baskerville (1969) which resulted in Error 403 no matter what was changed. Originally, DOI then this to minimise chance of

redirection

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/1933912

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cropgrowdays", 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("petebaker/cropgrowdays")

Development version from petebaker/cropgrowdays. 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-cropgrowdays

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-cropgrowdays

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-cropgrowdays

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.2.2

READMEYes · 1,881 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 7%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,313 · ~11/day · ~347/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36130 days

99390 days

4.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on110 r2u12 autocran36 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/petebaker/cropgrowdays ↗

1Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

99Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as MIT · 99 commits · Last activity 2025-10-15

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 gitlab.com/petebaker/cropgrowdays on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cropgrowdays adds 28 packages (20 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (6)

lubridate dplyr tibble purrr purrrlyr httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown knitr furrr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (2)

Peter Baker

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Miranda Mortlock

Author

Releases (5)

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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-21
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 8.2 KB / 3 files
Download size: 97 KB

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Agricultural Science

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citation("cropgrowdays")

Format

Baker, P., & Mortlock, M. (2025). cropgrowdays: Crop Growing Degree Days and Agrometeorological Calculations (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cropgrowdays

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cropgrowdays version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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