R Observatory: Metrics for getRad version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

getRad

0.4.0Package record

Download Radar Data for Biological Research

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.6Kdownloads / year

68.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bart KranstauberCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Biodiversa+

Load polar volume and vertical profile data for aeroecological research directly into R. With 'getRad' you can access data from several sources in Europe and the US and standardize it to facilitate further exploration in tools such as 'bioRad'.

Changes in 0.4.0

Implement reading data from the opera open radar data (#170).
Use options for urls so they can be changes without a package update (#120).
Add getRad.progress option to silence progress.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("getRad", 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("aloftdata/getRad")

Development version from aloftdata/getRad. 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-getrad

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 9.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-14
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-08
OK13 OK2026-10-06
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-29
OK13 OK2026-09-26

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-13
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-23
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-20
OK13 OK2026-07-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-15
OK13 OK2026-07-03
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-06-25
OK13 OK2026-06-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-19
OK13 OK2026-06-13
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-27
OK14 OK2026-03-16
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-13
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 170 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Supported sources HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,018 · ~10/day · ~303/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55430 days

1.1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Also on102 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

aloftdata/getrad ↗Organization: aloftdata

3Stars

1Forks

13Open issues

4Open PRs

7Releases

1,103Commits

8Commit identities

oscibiorr-packageradarrstats

1,103 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.4.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.4.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 17
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-01-10 · 12026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/aloftdata/getrad on 2026-10-18.

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 (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing getRad adds 72 packages (46 with compiled code, 78 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

bioRad cachem cli dplyr glue httr2 lubridate purrr rlang tibbletoolsutilsvroom withr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

askpass aws.s3 fs htmltools keyring knitr leaflet rhdf5 rnaturalearth rnaturalearthdata sf testthat (>= 3.0.0)tidyr vol2birdR

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

bioRad

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Bart Kranstauber

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2025)

University of Amsterdam

Peter Desmet

Author

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

Pieter Huybrechts

Author

Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

Bart Hoekstra

Contributor

University of Amsterdam

Hidde Leijnse

Contributor

Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Cecilia Nilsson

Contributor

Lund University

Alexander Tedeschi

Contributor

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

University of Amsterdam

Copyright holder

Biodiversa+

Funder

https://hirad.science/

Releases (7)

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0.4.0Latest
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2025-09-29 · diff ↗
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2025-08-25 · diff ↗
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2025-07-16
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-16
Total releases: 7 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 756 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("getRad")

Format

Kranstauber, B., Biodiversa+, University of Amsterdam, Desmet, P., Hoekstra, B., Huybrechts, P., Leijnse, H., Nilsson, C., & Tedeschi, A. (2026). getRad: Download Radar Data for Biological Research (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.getRad

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 getRad version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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