R Observatory: Metrics for getCRUCLdata version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

getCRUCLdata

2.0.0

'CRU' 'CL' v. 2.0 Climatology Client

0packages depend

1.2Kdownloads / year

68.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam H. SparksFirst published 2026-05-2021 releasesCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗

Provides functions that automate downloading and importing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ('CRU') 'CL' v. 2.0 climatology data, facilitates the calculation of minimum temperature and maximum temperature and formats the data into a data.table object or a 'terra' 'SpatRaster' object. 'CRU' 'CL' v. 2.0 data are a gridded climatology of 1961-1990 monthly means released in 2002 and cover all land areas (excluding Antarctica) at 10 arc minutes (0.1666667 degree) resolution. For more information see the description of the data provided by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/tmc/readme.txt.

Install

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

install.packages("getCRUCLdata", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-getcrucldata

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-getCRUCLdata

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-getCRUCLdata

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.73

68.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-08-05
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

OK2026-05-21
4 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 559 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

1.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,275 · ~3/day · ~101/mo

Releases R versions

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24630 days

1.1K90 days

1.2K1 year

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Repository

Codeberg ↗ ropensci/getcrucldata

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository codeberg.org/ropensci/getcrucldata is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

brio cli data.table fs httr2 rlang terra

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

knitr R.utils rmarkdown roxygen2 roxyglobals spelling testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Adam H. Sparks

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.2

Authors (1)

Adam H. Sparks

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.2

Listed in earlier versions (8)

"Sparks"

no longer listed · 0.1.1

"cre"))

no longer listed · 0.1.1

role = c("aut"

no longer listed · 0.1.1

person("Adam"

no longer listed · 0.1.1

Adam Sparks

no longer listed · 0.1.2 to 0.3.1

Scott Chamberlain

no longer listed · 0.1.10 to 0.2.0

Curtin University of Technology

no longer listed · 1.0.3

Grains Research and Development Corporation

no longer listed · 1.0.3

Package Timeline

21 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

2.0.0Latest
2026-05-20 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-05-20
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-02-09
policy violation Uses '~/.cache/org.R-project.R/getCRUCLdat'
1.0.3
2025-02-08 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-02-08
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-09-09
policy violation Leaving things behind
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.2
2020-10-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
2019-08-29 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.3.0
2019-04-12 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2018-09-12 · diff ↗
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2018-06-16 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2018-05-17 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.2
2017-12-16 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2017-12-15 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2017-11-16 · diff ↗
0.1.10
2017-10-26 · diff ↗
0.1.9
2017-08-19 · diff ↗
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2017-07-07 · diff ↗
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2017-06-26 · diff ↗
0.1.6
2017-06-13 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.5
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2017-02-03 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2017-02-01 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2017-01-18 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2017-01-05
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-20
Total releases: 21 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 732 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("getCRUCLdata")

Format

Sparks, A. H. (2026). getCRUCLdata: 'CRU' 'CL' v. 2.0 Climatology Client (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.getCRUCLdata

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for getCRUCLdata version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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