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skylight

A Simple Sky Illuminance Model

v1.4 · Nov 17, 2025 · AGPL-3

Description

A tool to calculate sky illuminance values (in lux) for both sun and moon. The model is a translation of the Fortran code by Janiczek and DeYoung (1987) <https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA182110>.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘skylight-Ex.R’ failed
The error occurred in:

Fatal error: cannot create 'R_TempDir'
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

whether package can be installed

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See 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/4.6/skylight.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (1)

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp skytrackr skylight

Version History

5 tracked
new 1.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.4 ← 1.3 diff Nov 16, 2025
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Sep 23, 2025
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Nov 3, 2023
new 1.1 Oct 30, 2022