R Observatory: Metrics for hydraulics version 0.7.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hydraulics

0.7.2

Basic Pipe and Open Channel Hydraulics

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4.7Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ed MaurerFirst published 2020-05-1815 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for basic hydraulic calculations related to water flow in circular pipes both flowing full (under pressure), and partially full (gravity flow), and trapezoidal open channels. For pressure flow this includes friction loss calculations by solving the Darcy-Weisbach equation for head loss, flow or diameter, plotting a Moody diagram, matching a pump characteristic curve to a system curve, and solving for flows in a pipe network using the Hardy-Cross method. The Darcy-Weisbach friction factor is calculated using the Colebrook (or Colebrook-White equation), the basis of the Moody diagram, the original citation being Colebrook (1939) doi:10.1680/ijoti.1939.13150. For gravity flow, the Manning equation is used, again solving for missing parameters. The derivation of and solutions using the Darcy-Weisbach equation and the Manning equation are outlined in many fluid mechanics texts such as Finnemore and Maurer (2024, ISBN:978-1-264-78729-6). Some gradually- and rapidly-varied flow functions are included. For the Manning equation solutions, this package uses modifications of original code from the 'iemisc' package by Irucka Embry.

Install

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

install.packages("hydraulics", 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("EdM44/hydraulics")

Development version from EdM44/hydraulics. 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-hydraulics

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-hydraulics

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-hydraulics

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 440 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ edm44/hydraulics

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4Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 132 commits · Last activity 2025-10-10

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (9)

ggplot2gridgtools pracma purrr reshape2statstibble units

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

formatdown kableExtra knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Ed Maurer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Ed Maurer

Author, Maintainer

Irucka Embry

Author, Contributor · added in 0.7.1

Contributors (1)

Irucka Embry

Author, Contributor · added in 0.7.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Irucka Embry (iemisc code)

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.7.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-18
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 871 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Hydrological Data and Modeling

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Maurer, E., & Embry, I. (2025). hydraulics: Basic Pipe and Open Channel Hydraulics (Version 0.7.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hydraulics

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hydraulics version 0.7.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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