R Observatory: Metrics for nasapower version 4.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nasapower

4.3.0

NASA POWER API Client

4packages dependsuggested by 4

27Kdownloads / year

95.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adam H. SparksCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Website ↗Issues ↗rOpenSci review: issue 155 ↗

An API client for NASA POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data API. POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources) data are freely available for download with varying spatial resolutions dependent on the original data and with several temporal resolutions depending on the POWER parameter and community. This work is funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied Science Program. For more on the data themselves, the methodologies used in creating, a web-based data viewer and web access, please see https://power.larc.nasa.gov/.

Changes in 4.3.0

Bug fixes

Fixes outdated examples where fetching more than one parameter per region was illustrated. The API changed without warning to disallow this and a change was made to the package to stop it, but I forgot to update the examples.

get_power()

Added temporal_api = "daily" default to the function signature
Parse response$parse("UTF-8") once into raw, then pass raw to both read_lines() and read_csv() — no double network/parse cost
Extracted header delimiter strings into named constants (header_begin, header_end)
Fixed || precedence bug: temporal_api == "daily" && (... == "re" || ... == "sb") now correctly requires daily for both communities
Now captures the return value of .check_inputs() and updates site_elevation/wind_elevation from it

.check_inputs()

Removed the unused community parameter
Replaced wind_elevation %notin% 10L:300L with wind_elevation < 10L || wind_elevation > 300L (no 291-element vector allocation)

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Now returns list(site_elevation = ..., wind_elevation = ...) so nulling those values actually propagates to the caller

.check_dates()

Added an explicit return(dates) at the end so the climatology path returns NULL visibly rather than falling off the function silently

Minor changes

Add user-facing settings to change download options, for *e.g.*, change the timeout for the API connection to 60 seconds, options(nasapower.timeout = 60L).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nasapower", 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-nasapower

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-nasapower

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-nasapower

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: 1.2 min · r-devel-windows-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 4.3.0

READMEYes · 794 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.3.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 6 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Vignettes (1)

nasapower

How these are measured

Downloads

27K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,728 · ~74/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

5.4K90 days

27K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on161 r2u8 autocran82 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/ropensci/nasapower ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/ropensci/nasapower is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nasapower adds 36 packages (22 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, yyjsonr 1.3 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

cli crul lubridate readr rlang tibble yyjsonr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

knitr purrr rmarkdown spelling testthat vcr webmockr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

1indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

climatrends r4pde EstimateBreed PowerSDI

Suggests, most downloaded first

apsimx AgriFusionR pacu weatherjoin

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Adam H. Sparks

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2018)

Phillip D. Alderman

Contributor · added in 4.0.4

Phillip Alderman contributed a patch to fix an issue with, 'The `file` argument of `vroom()` must use `I()` for literal…

Aleksandar Blagotić

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.2.0

Author of the CRAN package 'rapportools', from which the '.is_boolean()' was derived.

Gergely Daróczi

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.2.0

Author of the CRAN package 'rapportools', from which the '.is_boolean()' was derived.

Fernando Miguez

Contributor · added in 3.0.1

Fernando Miguez provided assistance in identifying improper missing value handling in the POWER data, see…

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 4.0.3

Maëlle Salmon contributed a patch to fix issues with using the R package, 'vcr', for testing the API queries, see…

Curtin University

Copyright holder · added in 4.2.0

http://www.curtin.edu.au/

Alison Boyer

Reviewer

Alison Boyer reviewed nasapower for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/155>.

Scott Chamberlain

Reviewer

Scott Chamberlain reviewed nasapower for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/155>.

Hazel Kavili

Reviewer

Hazel Kavili reviewed nasapower for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/155>.

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA)

no longer listed · 4.0.4 to 4.1.0

James J. Balamuta

no longer listed · 4.2.5

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-10-14
Total releases: 30 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 234 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("nasapower")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.01035.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nasapower version 4.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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