R Observatory: Metrics for gimms version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gimms

1.2.5Package record

Download and Process GIMMS NDVI3g Data

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

15.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Florian DetschCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

This is a set of functions to retrieve information about GIMMS NDVI3g files currently available online; download (and re-arrange, in the case of NDVI3g.v0) the half-monthly data sets; import downloaded files from ENVI binary (NDVI3g.v0) or NetCDF format (NDVI3g.v1) directly into R based on the widespread 'raster' package; conduct quality control; and generate monthly composites (e.g., maximum values) from the half-monthly input data. As a special gimmick, a method is included to conveniently apply the Mann-Kendall trend test upon 'Raster*' images, optionally featuring trend-free pre-whitening to account for lag-1 autocorrelation.

Changes in 1.2.5

✨ features and improvements

Revert {Kendall} and {zyp} removal (#16)
Add initial unit tests for significantTau()

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gimms", 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("environmentalinformatics-marburg/gimms")

Development version from environmentalinformatics-marburg/gimms. 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-gimms

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-gimms

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-gimms

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: 6.4 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 1.2.5

READMEYes · 999 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%5 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,483 · ~14/day · ~435/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44930 days

1.3K90 days

5.2K1 year

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Also on106 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

environmentalinformatics-marburg/gimms ↗Organization: environmentalinformatics-marburg

18Stars

7Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

271Commits

7Commit identities

271 commits · Last activity 2026-03-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 26
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2023-08-08 · 172026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/gimms on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gimms adds 8 packages (7 with compiled code, 9.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, terra 1.5 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5rastermethods

Imports (5)

curl Kendallparallelncdf4 zyp

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

checkmate tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Florian Detsch

Maintainer since 0.1 (2015), Author

Releases (17)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-08
Total releases: 17 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE in 1.1.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 166 KB / 2 files
Download size: 207 KB

Cite

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citation("gimms")

Format

Detsch, F. (2026). gimms: Download and Process GIMMS NDVI3g Data (Version 1.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gimms

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gimms version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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