R Observatory: Metrics for neonUtilities version 4.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

neonUtilities

4.0.2Package record

Utilities for Working with NEON Data

3packages dependsuggested by 3

21Kdownloads / year

10.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Claire LunchCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

NEON data packages can be accessed through the NEON Data Portal https://www.neonscience.org or through the NEON Data API (see https://data.neonscience.org/data-api for documentation). Data delivered from the Data Portal are provided as monthly zip files packaged within a parent zip file, while individual files can be accessed from the API. This package provides tools that aid in discovering, downloading, and reformatting data prior to use in analyses. This includes downloading data via the API, merging data tables by type, and converting formats. For more information, see the readme file at https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-utilities.

Changes in 4.0.2

Released 2026-09-09

Keeping up to date with internal code changes

Updated customized code for stacking sensor positions files, to align with updated publication schema

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("neonUtilities", 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("NEONScience/NEON-utilities")

Development version from NEONScience/NEON-utilities. 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-neonutilities

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-neonUtilities

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-neonUtilities

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-29
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.0.2

READMEYes · 3,218 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 74 (39 internal)
Examples that run: 24%4 run in a plain check · 13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 55%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 93%

How these are measured

Downloads

21K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,374 · ~57/day · ~1.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.3K90 days

21K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on174 r2u4 autocran2.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

neonscience/neon-utilities ↗Organization: NEONScience

62Stars

38Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

12Releases

1,011Commits

14Commit identities

License file reads as AGPL-3.0 · 1,011 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 57
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-04 · 582026-08-12 · 62

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/neonscience/neon-utilities on 2026-10-21.

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing neonUtilities adds 45 packages (25 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, duckdb 7.9 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (16)

httr jsonlite jose downloader data.tableutilsR.utilsstatstidyr dplyr pbapplyparallelcurl arrow rlang duckdbfs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rhdf5 terra testthat fasttime

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ecocomDP neonSoilFlux neonPlantEcology

Suggests, most downloaded first

neonstore neonOS Z10

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Claire Lunch

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018), Contributor

NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network)

Author · added in 1.3.4

Kaelin Cawley

Author, Contributor · added in 1.3.3

Christine Laney

Author, Contributor

Nathan Mietkiewicz

Author, Contributor · added in 1.3.3

Eric Sokol

Author, Contributor · added in 1.3.3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

National Ecological Observatory Network

no longer listed · 1.3.3

Releases (36)

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4.0.2Latest
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2026-09-09 · current release · diff ↗
4.0.1
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2026-07-02 · diff ↗
4.0.0
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2026-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
schemaFromVarDuck, stackDataFilesDuck
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.3
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3.0.2
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3.0.1
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3.0.0
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2025-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
byEventSIM, datasetQuery, getHorVer, queryFiles, schemaFromVar, tokenDate
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.4.3
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2.4.0
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2023-10-18 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2023-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getCitation
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

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2.2.1
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2023-03-10 · diff ↗
2.2.0
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2022-11-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.4
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2022-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getNeonDOI
2.1.3
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2021-12-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
getIssueLog
2.1.2
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.0.1
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2021-03-04 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2021-01-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
listFilesInZip, listZipfiles
1.3.9
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1.3.8
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2020-11-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
stackFromStore
1.3.7
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2020-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
getFilesize

added 2 exports
convByteSize, getTimeIndex
1.3.6
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2020-07-26 · diff ↗
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2020-06-03 · diff ↗
1.3.4
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2020-04-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.3
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2020-01-08 · diff ↗
1.3.2
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2019-12-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
footRaster, readTableNEON
1.3.1
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2019-08-03 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2019-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
getVarsEddy, stackEddy
1.2.2
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2019-05-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
zipsByURI
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-03-06
1.2.1
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2019-03-06 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-03-01
check problems were not corrected in time
1.2.0
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2019-01-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getDatatable, getTaxonTable, loadByProduct
1.0.1
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2018-11-13 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2018-11-03
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-03
Total releases: 36 / 8 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Bundled data: 13 KB / 5 files
Download size: 207 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("neonUtilities")

Format

Lunch, C., NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), Cawley, K., Laney, C., Mietkiewicz, N., & Sokol, E. (2026). neonUtilities: Utilities for Working with NEON Data (Version 4.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.neonUtilities

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for neonUtilities version 4.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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