R Observatory: Metrics for hydrocan version 0.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hydrocan

0.0.2Package record

Unified Access to Canadian Hydrometric Data

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

90.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sam AlbersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funders: Canada Water Agency and Tula Foundation

Provides a unified interface for accessing diverse web-published hydrometric data sources across Canada, presenting users with consistent tabular output regardless of the underlying data source.

Changes in 0.0.2

Exclude Hakai station IDs from the bundled bc_aquarius_stations list so that stations already served by the Hakai ERDDAP adapter are no longer duplicated by the BC Aquarius adapter (#28).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("hydrocan", 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("HakaiInstitute/hydrocan")

Development version from HakaiInstitute/hydrocan. 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-hydrocan

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-hydrocan

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-hydrocan

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: 2.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-06-17

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.2

READMEYes · 285 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 29%2 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,482 · ~4/day · ~107/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30630 days

82390 days

1.3K1 year

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Also on24 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hakaiinstitute/hydrocan ↗Organization: HakaiInstitute

1Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

52Commits

2Commit identities

52 commits · Last activity 2026-10-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-10-09 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/hakaiinstitute/hydrocan on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-20

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository has an AI review tool set up.

Review tools

Copilot code review
Commits: at least 2 accepting its review suggestions

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hydrocan adds 31 packages (18 with compiled code, 9.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (6)

cli dplyr glue httr2 readr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

httptest2 knitr rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Sam Albers

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2026)

Emily Haughton

Contributor · added in 0.0.2

Tula Foundation

Funder, Copyright holder

Canada Water Agency

Funder

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.0.2Latest
record
2026-10-19 · current release · diff ↗ ·
listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-19 18:02 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.0.1
record
2026-06-16
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 23 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-16
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 464 KB

Appears in task views

Hydrological Data and Modeling

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hydrocan")

Format

Albers, S., Canada Water Agency, Tula Foundation, & Haughton, E. (2026). hydrocan: Unified Access to Canadian Hydrometric Data (Version 0.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hydrocan

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

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 hydrocan version 0.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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