R Observatory: Metrics for startR version 3.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

startR

3.0.0Package record

Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets

2packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Victoria AgudetseCRAN page ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Automatically fetch, transform and arrange subsets of multidimensional data sets (collections of files) stored in local and/or remote file systems or servers, using multicore capabilities where possible. This tool provides an interface to perceive a collection of data sets as a single large multidimensional data array, and enables the user to request for automatic retrieval, processing and arrangement of subsets of the large array. Wrapper functions to add support for custom file formats can be plugged in/out, making the tool suitable for any research field where large multidimensional data sets are involved.

Changes in 3.0.0

-Remove PCICt dependency and replace with ClimProjDiags::as.PCICt()

startR now requires ClimProjDiags >= 0.3.4
Compute(): Add bscesautosubmit03 and bscesautosubmit04 as accepted AS machines !254 (merged)

-Compute(): New parameter run_dir to allow Compute() to run on MN5 and CTE-AMD when using Autosubmit #212 (closed) !254 (merged)

-Fix Start() check for undefined inner dimensions when there are multiple undefined inner dims !250 (merged)

-Start() bugfix: Error when splitting multiselected dimension that is across files

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("startR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-startr

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-startR

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-startR

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Base packages in Suggests/Enhances imported in NAMESPACE:
  ‘stats’ ‘utils’

r-devel-windows-x86_64

Base packages in Suggests/Enhances imported in NAMESPACE:
  'stats' 'utils'

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-12
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.0.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,085 · ~11/day · ~335/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41230 days

94990 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing startR adds 37 packages (21 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, maps 2.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (10)

abind bigmemory future multiApplyparalleleasyNCDF s2dv ClimProjDiags stringrmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

statsutilstestthat yaml

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

3indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

CSTools clim4health

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Victoria Agudetse

Maintainer since 2.4.0 (2024), Contributor · added in 2.3.1

BSC-CNS

Author, Copyright holder

An-Chi Ho

Author · added in 2.0.0

Nicolau Manubens

Author

Nuria Perez-Zanon

Author · added in 2.0.0

Pierre-Antoine Bretonniere

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Eva Rifa

Contributor · added in 2.2.1

Roberto Serrano

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Javier Vegas

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Bruno de Paula Kinoshita

Contributor · added in 2.3.1

Previously maintained by An-Chi Ho (2.0.0 to 2.3.1) and Nicolau Manubens (0.0.1).

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-10-08
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-05-03
required archived package 'PCICt'
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-09-12 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-06
2.2.3
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2023-06-06 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-05-15
requires archived package 'ClimProjDiags'
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2.2
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2022-11-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.1.0
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2020-10-29 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2020-08-26 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2020-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[^\\.]

added 16 exports
AddStep, CDORemapper, CircularSort, Collect, Compute, NcCloser, NcDataReader, NcDimReader, NcOpener, NcVarReader, SelectorChecker, Sort, Start, Step, indices, values
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-22
Total releases: 12 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI · relicensed from Apache License 2.0 in 2.2.2
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 825 KB

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Agudetse, V., BSC-CNS, Bretonniere, P., Ho, A., Manubens, N., Perez-Zanon, N., Rifa, E., Serrano, R., Vegas, J., & de Paula Kinoshita, B. (2025). startR: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets (Version 3.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.startR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for startR version 3.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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