R Observatory: Metrics for rnpn version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rnpn

1.4.2Package record

Interface to the USA National 'Phenology' Network 'API'

0packages depend

5Kdownloads / year

77.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeff SwitzerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the USA National 'Phenology' Network (https://usanpn.org/), which includes data on various life history events that occur at specific times.

Install

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

install.packages("rnpn", 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("usa-npn/rnpn")

Development version from usa-npn/rnpn. 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-rnpn

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-rnpn

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-rnpn

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: 3.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-29
OK13 OK2026-06-18

Show 6 earlier changesHide 6 earlier changes

ERROR7 OK, 6 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-06-04
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-03
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-05-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-29
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

WebsiteYes · pkgdown

Vignettes (8)

01. Introduction to National Phenology Network Observational Data HTML
02. Status and Intensity Data HTML
03. Individual Phenometrics HTML
04. Site Phenometrics HTML
05. Magnitude Phenometrics HTML
06. USA-NPN Geospatial Data HTML
07. Putting It All Together HTML
08. Data Cleaning HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,693 · ~14/day · ~417/mo

rnpn Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47230 days

1.3K90 days

5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on77 r2u7 autocran1.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

usa-npn/rnpn ↗Organization: usa-npn

25Stars

12Forks

23Open issues

5Open PRs

4Releases

581Commits

12Commit identities

web-apispeciesdatarstatsrnational-phenology-networkphenologyr-package

581 commits · Last activity 2025-10-27 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.4.1.9000) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 52
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/usa-npn/rnpn 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)

Contributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-27, before release 1.4.2 (2026-06-17)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rnpn adds 27 packages (18 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

dplyr httr2 jsonlite lifecycle magrittr rlang tibble tidyr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

covr ggplot2 knitr markdown RColorBrewer rmarkdown sf terra testthat vcr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Jeff Switzer

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.6 (2023) · added in 1.2.6

Scott Chamberlain

Author

Lee Marsh

Author

Eric R Scott

Author · added in 1.2.6

Kevin Wong

Author · added in 1.1.1

David LeBauer

Contributor · added in 1.2.5

Previously maintained by Alyssa Rosemartin (1.2.2 to 1.2.5) and Lee Marsh (1.1.1 to 1.2.1).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Alyssa Rosemartin

no longer listed · 1.1.1 to 1.2.5

Releases (16)

1.4.2Latest
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2026-06-17 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1
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2025-08-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
npn_set_env
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4.0
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2025-03-25 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2025-03-05 · diff ↗
1.2.9.0
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2024-08-19 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.8.0
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2024-02-08 · diff ↗
1.2.7.0
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2024-01-25 · diff ↗
1.2.6
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2023-08-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.5
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2022-04-21 · diff ↗
1.2.4
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2021-11-10 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-10-25

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1.2.3
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2021-10-25 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-10
policy violation On Internet access
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-10-05
1.2.2
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2021-10-05 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-09-19
the maintainer's email address is no longer in use
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-04-07
1.2.1
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2021-04-07 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-29
policy violation On Internet access
1.2.0
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2021-03-23 · diff ↗
1.1.1
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2020-12-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
lookup_names, npn_species_comm, npn_species_itis, npn_species_sci

added 26 exports
npn_abundance_categories, npn_datasets, npn_download_geospatial, npn_download_individual_phenometrics, npn_download_magnitude_phenometrics, npn_download_site_phenometrics, npn_download_status_data, npn_get_agdd_point_data, npn_get_custom_agdd_raster, npn_get_custom_agdd_time_series, npn_get_layer_details, npn_get_phenophases_for_taxon, npn_get_point_data, npn_groups, npn_lookup_names, npn_pheno_classes, npn_phenophase_definitions, npn_phenophase_details, npn_phenophases, npn_phenophases_by_species, npn_set_env, npn_species_types, npn_stations, npn_stations_by_location, npn_stations_by_state, npn_stations_with_spp
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0
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2016-04-20
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-20
Total releases: 16 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 3.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rnpn")

The authors publish a CITATION.cff, so they have said how they want this cited. Run citation() and use what it gives you.

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 rnpn version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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