R Observatory: Metrics for weathR version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

weathR

0.1.0Package record

Interact with the U.S. National Weather Service API

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeffrey FowlerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Enables interaction with the National Weather Service application programming web-interface for fetching of real-time and forecast meteorological data. Users can provide latitude and longitude, Automated Surface Observing System identifier, or Automated Weather Observing System identifier to fetch recent weather observations and recent forecasts for the given location or station. Additionally, auxiliary functions exist to identify stations nearest to a point, convert wind direction from character to degrees, and fetch active warnings. Results are returned as simple feature objects whenever possible.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN submission.
Provides access to NWS alert, forecast, and station data via API.
Includes utility functions for converting between latitude/longitude and ASOS/AWOS station.
Utilizes sf objects whenever possible.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("weathR", 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("JeffreyFowler/weathR")

Development version from JeffreyFowler/weathR. 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-weathr

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-weathR

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-weathR

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-19
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-18
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30

Show 11 earlier changesHide 11 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-28
OK13 OK2026-07-14
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-13
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-09
OK13 OK2026-05-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-06
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 213 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 22 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 24%5 run in a plain check · 16 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,108 · ~7/day · ~221/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23030 days

81390 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on233 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jeffreyfowler/weathr ↗Account: JeffreyFowler

5Stars

1Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

34Commits

1Commit identities

34 commits · Last activity 2025-03-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 42026-07-21 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeffreyfowler/weathr on 2026-10-25.

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-03-31

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing weathR adds 41 packages (28 with compiled code, 43 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, lutz 4.2 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

dplyr httr2 janitor jsonlite lubridate lutz magrittr purrr sf tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

gt snakecase tmap

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeffrey Fowler

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0Latest
record
2025-04-02 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-02
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("weathR")

Format

Fowler, J. (2025). weathR: Interact with the U.S. National Weather Service API (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.weathR

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 weathR version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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