R Observatory: Metrics for ecmwfr version 2.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ecmwfr

2.0.3Package record

Interface to 'ECMWF' and 'CDS' Data Web Services

5packages dependsuggested by 1

23.2Kdownloads / year

36.8%test coverage

12/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Koen HufkensCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: BlueGreen Labs

Programmatic interface to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts dataset web services (ECMWF; https://www.ecmwf.int/) and Copernicus's Data Stores. Allows for easy downloads of weather forecasts and climate reanalysis data in R. Data stores covered include the Climate Data Store (CDS; https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu), Atmosphere Data Store (ADS; https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu) and Early Warning Data Store (CEMS; https://ewds.climate.copernicus.eu).

Install

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

install.packages("ecmwfr", 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("bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr")

Development version from bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr. 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-ecmwfr

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-ecmwfr

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-ecmwfr

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

1ERROR12OK

Check messages

ERRORwhether package can be installedr-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Installation failed.
See ‘/data/localhost/ripley/R/packages/tests-clang/ecmwfr.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 0%8 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 89%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Advanced Features HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

23.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,647 · ~64/day · ~1.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.1K30 days

5.9K90 days

23.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on197 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr ↗Organization: bluegreen-labs

138Stars

36Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

736Commits

8Commit identities

copernicuscdsecmwf-apiecmwf-servicesclimate-datar-packagerstats

736 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · +0.7% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.4, ahead of CRAN 2.0.3 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-09 · 1262026-10-02 · 138

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr on 2026-10-21.

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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ecmwfr adds 17 packages (13 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (6)

httr memoise getPass R6 keyringtools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

rmarkdown covr xml2 testthat terra maps ncdf4 knitr rlang rstudioapi jsonlite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

1indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

chillR gloBFPr clim4health rIACI ERA5Flux

Suggests, most downloaded first

xaci

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Koen Hufkens

Elio Campitelli

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Reto Stauffer

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

BlueGreen Labs

Funder · added in 1.4.0

Releases (14)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
wf_product_info, wf_services, wf_user_info

added 1 export
wf_dataset_info
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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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wf_request_batch
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2.1
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2019-04-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
wf_archetype
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added 2 exports
wf_check_request, wf_product_info
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-17
Total releases: 14 / 7 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 340 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ecmwfr")

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

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.2647531.

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 ecmwfr version 2.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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