R Observatory: Metrics for raincpc version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2021-04-11. Its history is shown below.

Reason: policy violation. And the maintainer will not fix it

Details below reflect version 1.1.0, its last release before removal.

raincpc

1.1.0

Obtain and Analyze Daily Rainfall Data from the USA Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

0packages depend

–downloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Gopi Goteti5 releasesCRAN page ↗

The Climate Prediction Center's (CPC) rainfall data for the world (1979 to present, 50 km resolution) and the USA (1948 to present, 25 km resolution), is one of the few high quality, long term, observation based, daily rainfall products available for free. Although raw data is available at CPC's ftp site, obtaining, processing and visualizing the data is not straightforward. There are thousands of files, and file formats and file extensions have been changing over time. This package provides functionality to download, process and visualize over 40 years of global rainfall data and over 70 years of USA rainfall data from CPC.

Install

R (source archive)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/raincpc/raincpc_1.1.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "raincpc_1.1.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.1.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

# 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-raincpc

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 13%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

raster

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none

Suggests (2)

knitr ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

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Gopi Goteti

Contributor

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-11
policy violation And the maintainer will not fix it
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
2020-01-31 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.4
2014-08-28 · diff ↗
0.3
2014-08-26 · diff ↗
0.2
2014-06-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.1
2013-11-26
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

Total releases: 5
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("raincpc")

Format

Goteti, G. (n.d.). raincpc: Obtain and Analyze Daily Rainfall Data from the USA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved August 13, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=raincpc

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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 raincpc version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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