R Observatory: Metrics for pastclim version 2.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pastclim

2.2.0Package record

Manipulate Time Series of Climate Reconstructions

0packages dependsuggested by 2

14.5Kdownloads / year

58.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea ManicaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Methods to easily extract and manipulate climate reconstructions for ecological and anthropological analyses, as described in Leonardi et al. (2023) doi:10.1111/ecog.06481. The package includes datasets of palaeoclimate reconstructions, present observations, and future projections from multiple climate models.

Changes in 2.2.0

Add functions to perform delta downscale of climate data.
Fix CHELSA paths to match new URLs.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pastclim", 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("EvolEcolGroup/pastclim")

Development version from EvolEcolGroup/pastclim. 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-pastclim

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-pastclim

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-pastclim

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: 9.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.0

READMEYes · 644 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.2.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 96 (39 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 7%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

14.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,995 · ~40/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

62830 days

1.7K90 days

14.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114 r2u5 autocran614 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

evolecolgroup/pastclim ↗Organization: EvolEcolGroup

41Stars

7Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

12Releases

562Commits

3Commit identities

paleoclimaterclimate-dataspecies-distribution-modelling

License file reads as CC-BY-4.0 · 562 commits · Last activity 2026-07-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-28 · 382026-07-07 · 41

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/evolecolgroup/pastclim 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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-06

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrLint workflow

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-06-18
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pastclim adds 29 packages (22 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, sp 4.3 MB, stars 3.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0terra

Imports (8)

curl lubridate gstatmethodsncdf4utilsxml2 sf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

ggplot2 httr knitr rmarkdown marmap testthat spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidysdm crstools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Emily Y.

no longer listed · 1.2.3 to 2.2.0

Andrea V.

no longer listed · 2.1.0 to 2.2.0

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.2.0Latest
record
2025-02-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
delta_compute, delta_downscale, download_etopo, downscale_ice_mask, load_etopo, make_land_mask
2.1.0
record
2024-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_resolution, koeppen_geiger
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.0.0
record
2023-11-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
set_data_path_for_CRAN

added 7 exports
bioclim_vars, date2ybp, get_time_bp_steps, get_time_ce_steps, list_available_datasets, location_slice_from_region_series, ybp2date
1.2.4
record
2023-04-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
location_series_old

added 2 exports
time_bp<-, distance_from_sea
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.3
record
2023-01-06
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-06
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 8.2 KB / 6 files
Download size: 3.3 MB

Appears in task views

Paleontology

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("pastclim")

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

It points to 10.1111/ecog.06481.

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 pastclim version 2.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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