R Observatory: Metrics for kgc version 1.0.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kgc

1.0.0.2Package record

Koeppen-Geiger Climatic Zones

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3.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chelsey BryantCRAN page ↗

Aids in identifying the Koeppen-Geiger (KG) climatic zone for a given location. The Koeppen-Geiger climate zones were first published in 1884, as a system to classify regions of the earth by their relative heat and humidity through the year, for the benefit of human health, plant and agriculture and other human activity [1]. This climate zone classification system, applicable to all of the earths surface, has continued to be developed by scientists up to the present day. Recently one of use (FZ) has published updated, higher accuracy KG climate zone definitions [2]. In this package we use these updated high-resolution maps as the data source [3]. We provide functions that return the KG climate zone for a given longitude and lattitude, or for a given United States zip code. In addition the CZUncertainty() function will check climate zones nearby to check if the given location is near a climate zone boundary. In addition an interactive shiny app is provided to define the KG climate zone for a given longitude and lattitude, or United States zip code. Digital data, as well as animated maps, showing the shift of the climate zones are provided on the following website http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at. This work was supported by the DOE-EERE SunShot award DE-EE-0007140. [1] W. Koeppen, (2011) doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2011/105. [2] F. Rubel and M. Kottek, (2010) doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0430. [3] F. Rubel, K. Brugger, K. Haslinger, and I. Auer, (2016) doi:10.1127/metz/2016/0816.

Install

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

install.packages("kgc", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-kgc

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-kgc

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-kgc

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: 10.6 min · r-release-macos-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 1.0.0.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 86%6 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

1 - KGC Vignette HTML
2 - KGC Data Resolution HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,388 · ~10/day · ~290/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31730 days

89890 days

3.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing kgc adds 32 packages (20 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.3.2shiny shinythemes plyr

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (4)

Chelsey Bryant

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0.1 (2017)

Roger H. French

Author

Franz Rubel

Author

Nicholas R. Wheeler

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-20
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.2
Bundled data: 622 KB / 5 files
Download size: 1.4 MB

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citation("kgc")

Format

Bryant, C., French, R. H., Rubel, F., & Wheeler, N. R. (2017). kgc: Koeppen-Geiger Climatic Zones (Version 1.0.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.kgc

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kgc version 1.0.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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