R Observatory: Metrics for wcswatin version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wcswatin

0.2.0Package record

Weather and Climate Inputs for 'SWAT'

0packages depend

1Kdownloads / year

94.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Réginal ExavierCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides workflows to prepare weather and climate time series from gridded and station data for 'SWAT' ('Soil and Water Assessment Tool'). Supports data extraction, aggregation, interpolation, quality control, unit conversion, and export of per-location model input files. For the underlying model, see Arnold et al. (1998) "Large Area Hydrologic Modeling and Assessment Part I: Model Development" doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb05961.x.

Changes in 0.2.0

Breaking changes

Removed the superseded raster package dependency and standardized spatial raster workflows on terra and SpatRaster.
ts_to_area() now returns a multi-layer SpatRaster and preserves input file stems as layer names, such as 2020-01-01.
input_raster() no longer accepts legacy RasterLayer, RasterStack, or RasterBrick objects. Convert these objects with terra::rast() before passing them to wcswatin.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("wcswatin", 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("reginalexavier/wcswatin")

Development version from reginalexavier/wcswatin. 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-wcswatin

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-wcswatin

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK6 OK2026-07-20

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 783 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 32 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (1)

Preparing weather and climate inputs with wcswatin HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,028 · ~3/day · ~85/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29430 days

91990 days

1K1 year

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Also on21 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

reginalexavier/wcswatin ↗Account: reginalexavier

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

208Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 208 commits · Last activity 2026-09-12 · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-07-20 · 22026-09-13 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/reginalexavier/wcswatin on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Automation and maintenance (2)

Dependabotpre-commit

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrAirRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wcswatin adds 58 packages (36 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

dplyr tidyr ncdf4 data.table glue stringr sf lubridate hyfo ggplot2 terra future.apply progressrmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

future knitr rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Réginal Exavier

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2026)

Fernando Shinji Kawakubo

Author

Peter Zeilhofer

Author

Releases (2)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-09-11 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wcswatin")

Format

Exavier, R., Kawakubo, F. S., & Zeilhofer, P. (2026). wcswatin: Weather and Climate Inputs for 'SWAT' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wcswatin

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wcswatin version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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