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heatwaveR

Detect Heatwaves and Cold-Spells

v0.5.5 · Jan 13, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

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.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies data.table fasttime ggplot2 Rcpp RcppRoll heatwaveR

Version History

new 0.5.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.5.5 ← 0.5.4 diff Jan 12, 2026
updated 0.5.4 ← 0.4.6 diff Apr 9, 2025
updated 0.4.6 ← 0.4.5 diff Oct 26, 2021
updated 0.4.5 ← 0.4.4 diff Jan 6, 2021
updated 0.4.4 ← 0.4.2 diff Jun 26, 2020
updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Nov 30, 2019
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Sep 8, 2019
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.6 diff Jul 10, 2019
updated 0.3.6 ← 0.3.3 diff Jan 15, 2019
updated 0.3.3 ← 0.3.0 diff Aug 1, 2018
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.7 diff Jun 21, 2018
new 0.2.7 May 29, 2018