R Observatory: Metrics for metR version 0.19.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metR

0.19.0Package record

Tools for Easier Analysis of Meteorological Fields

20packages dependsuggested by 6

77.5Kdownloads / year

35.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Elio CampitelliCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Many useful functions and extensions for dealing with meteorological data in the tidy data framework. Extends 'ggplot2' for better plotting of scalar and vector fields and provides commonly used analysis methods in the atmospheric sciences.

Changes in 0.19.0

New features

geom_streamline() gets a start argument to manually specify starting locations for the integration.
geom_streamline() handles groups defined in different grids better.
When reading multiple files, ReadNetCDF() will add a "file" column that uses the names of the vector of files (if it has).
Reading multiple files with ReadNetCDF() does not require furrr but will use it if it's installed.
New function robust_breaks() to make a version of a break function that is not sensitive to outliers.

Bug fixes

Errors in the mismatched spatial positioning of WaveFlux() calculation results and the internal calculation of the Coriolis parameter(f) have been corrected. Additionally, robust adjustments have been made to data at low latitudes (near the equator).
Fixes parsing of some netCDF timestamps (#217).
Fixes return value of FitWave() to always return integer k.
Fixes regression in ReadNetCDF() when selecting one point. (#219, thanks @delie0512)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("metR", 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("eliocamp/metR")

Development version from eliocamp/metR. 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-metr

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-metR

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-metR

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: 8.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-10-06
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.19.0

READMEYes · 308 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.19.0Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 56 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%36 run in a plain check (12 of them under a condition) · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 55%
Help pages citing references: 14%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

77.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,532 · ~212/day · ~6.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.8K30 days

15.7K90 days

77.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on814 r2u6 autocran5.9K conda_forge169 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eliocamp/metr ↗Account: eliocamp

158Stars

25Forks

17Open issues

2Open PRs

23Releases

1,198Commits

7Commit identities

ratmospheric-scienceggplot2r-packagerstatsvisualization

1,198 commits · Last activity 2026-10-08 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.19.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.19.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-05-18 · 1512026-07-16 · 158

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eliocamp/metr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-08 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-08

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metR adds 44 packages (27 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (17)

checkmate data.table digest Formula formula.tools ggplot2gridgtable isoband lubridate memoise plyr purrr rlang scales sf stringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

CFtime furrr gsignal irlba knitr kriging maps markdown ncdf4 proj4 rcdo reshape2 rnaturalearth terra testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

20direct

1indirect

Imports 20

Suggested by 6

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mosaicCalc chillR DImodelsVis injurytools aihuman paths SOMbrero voluModel CIMTx gaussplotR klovan ForIT Markovchart gamutil senseweight OVtool power.nb SCoRES survSens nimblewomble

Suggests, most downloaded first

plotthis SensIAT ICvectorfields pcpr igrf rFAMS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Elio Campitelli

Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2018), Author

Releases (24)

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0.19.0Latest
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2026-10-08 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
robust_breaks
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.18.3
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OpenNetCDF
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2025-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ParseNetCDFtime
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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removed 1 export
DivideTimeseries
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-10-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
Smooth2D, smooth_dct, smooth_svd
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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0.12.0
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0.11.0
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2021-09-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
label_placer_all, label_placer_flattest, label_placer_fraction, label_placer_minmax, label_placer_n, label_placer_random, scale_label_alpha_continuous, scale_label_colour_continuous, scale_label_size_continuous
0.10.0
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2021-08-07 · diff ↗ ·
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Detrend, ResidLm, sa_height, sa_height_axis, sa_height_breaks, sa_height_trans, sa_pressure, sa_pressure_axis, sa_pressure_trans, sa_temperature
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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Angle, as.discretised_scale, scale_stroke.colour_continuous
0.9.0
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2020-11-25 · diff ↗ ·
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ScaleDiscretised, discretised_scale, label_placement_minmax, scale_fill_discretised, scale_fill_divergent_discretised
0.8.0
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2020-10-25 · diff ↗ ·
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scale_dx_continuous

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label_placement_all, label_placement_flattest, label_placement_fraction, label_placement_n, label_placement_random
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.7.0
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2020-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
seasonaly

added 1 export
seasonally
0.6.0
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2020-02-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
EPflux, WaveEnvelope, denormalise, is.full_season, scale_colour_divergent, scale_dx_continuous, scale_mag_continuous, seasonaly
0.5.0
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2019-11-13 · diff ↗ ·
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denormalize
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2019-07-08 · diff ↗ ·
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GlanceNetCDF, cross, is.cross
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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Trajectory
0.2.0
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2018-11-19
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-19
Total releases: 24 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 736 KB / 3 files
Download size: 3.5 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metR version 0.19.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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