R Observatory: Metrics for heatwaveR version 0.5.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

heatwaveR

0.5.5

Detect Heatwaves and Cold-Spells

1packages depend

13.6Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert W. SchlegelFirst published 2018-05-3012 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The different methods for defining, detecting, and categorising the extreme events known as heatwaves or cold-spells, as first proposed in Hobday et al. (2016) <doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2015.12.014> and Hobday et al. (2018) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26542662. The functions in this package work on both air and water temperature data of hourly and daily temporal resolution. These detection algorithms may be used on non-temperature data as well.

Install

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

install.packages("heatwaveR", 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("robwschlegel/heatwaveR")

Development version from robwschlegel/heatwaveR. 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-heatwaver

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-heatwaveR

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-heatwaveR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.35

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,875 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 35%

Downloads

13.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,874 · ~37/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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61930 days

2.3K90 days

13.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ robwschlegel/heatwaver

57Stars

17Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

679Commits

5Contributors

679 commits · Last activity 2026-07-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-16 · 502026-07-07 · 57

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robwschlegel/heatwaver on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-05-21

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-05-21

Evidence

claude: on 2026-05-21 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (7)

data.table fasttime ggplot2 Rcpp RcppRollstatsutils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (15)

covr doParallel dplyr ggpubr knitr lubridate ncdf4 plyr rerddap rmarkdown stringr testthat tibble tidync tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

rarefun

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Robert W. Schlegel

Author, Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (2)

Robert W. Schlegel

Author, Maintainer, Contributor

Albertus J. Smit

Author, Contributor

Contributors (2)

Robert W. Schlegel

Author, Maintainer, Contributor

Albertus J. Smit

Author, Contributor

Package Timeline

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

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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-10-27
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-24
check problems were not corrected in time
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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
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2018-05-30
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-30
Total releases: 12 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 152 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("heatwaveR")

Format

Schlegel, R. W., & Smit, A. J. (2026). heatwaveR: Detect Heatwaves and Cold-Spells (Version 0.5.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.heatwaveR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for heatwaveR version 0.5.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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