R Observatory: Metrics for dwdradar version 0.2.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dwdradar

0.2.13Package record

Read Binary Radar Files from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)

0packages dependsuggested by 1

5.9Kdownloads / year

94.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Berry BoessenkoolCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The 'DWD' provides gridded radar data for Germany in binary format. 'dwdradar' reads these files and enables a fast conversion into numerical format.

Install

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

install.packages("dwdradar", 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("brry/dwdradar")

Development version from brry/dwdradar. 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-dwdradar

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-dwdradar

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-dwdradar

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.13

READMEYes · 92 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,514 · ~16/day · ~490/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42430 days

1.1K90 days

5.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on364 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

brry/dwdradar ↗Account: brry

1Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

39Commits

2Commit identities

39 commits · Last activity 2026-03-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 160
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 129

Stars over time

2023-12-02 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/brry/dwdradar on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dwdradar adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat terra berryFunctions R.utils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rdwd

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Berry Boessenkool

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2019)

Christoph Ritschel

Contributor

Henning Rust

Contributor

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.13Latest
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2026-03-28 · 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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-09-27
0.2.10
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2023-09-27 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-09-26
check issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.7
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2021-08-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.3
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2020-06-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
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2019-10-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-24
Total releases: 5 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dwdradar")

Format

Boessenkool, B., Ritschel, C., & Rust, H. (2026). dwdradar: Read Binary Radar Files from 'DWD' (German Weather Service) (Version 0.2.13) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dwdradar

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 dwdradar version 0.2.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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