R Observatory: Metrics for weatherOz version 3.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

weatherOz

3.0.1Package record

An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources

0packages depend

5.3Kdownloads / year

87.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rodrigo PiresCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides automated downloading, parsing and formatting of weather data for Australia through API endpoints provided by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) of Western Australia and by the Science and Technology Division of the Queensland Government's Department of Environment and Science (DES). As well as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) of the Australian government precis and coastal forecasts, and downloading and importing radar and satellite imagery files. DPIRD weather data are accessed through public APIs provided by DPIRD, https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/online-tools/apis/, providing access to weather station data from the DPIRD weather station network. Australia-wide weather data are based on data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) data and accessed through SILO (Scientific Information for Land Owners) Jeffrey et al. (2001) doi:10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1. DPIRD data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence (CC BY 3.0 AU) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en. SILO data are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. BOM data are (c) Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology and released under a Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 3.0 licence or Public Access Licence (PAL) as appropriate, see https://www.bom.gov.au/copyright for further details.

Changes in 3.0.1

Bug fixes

Fixed CRAN check ERRORs in test-find_stations_in.R. The test asserted a fixed station count (650 to 700) for the South West Agricultural Region, but the count depends on the live BOM station list, which is fetched with utils::download.file() and is not captured by the vcr cassette. The test now checks that every returned station lies inside the polygon and that a substantial number is returned, instead of a fixed count. The same change is applied to the bounding-box test.
The get_stations_metadata(which_api = "all") test had the same fixed-count assertion (3800 to 3900) and now checks behaviour as well.
Tests for find_stations_in(), find_forecast_towns() and the get_stations_metadata() tests that reach the BOM station list now skip_on_cran() and skip_if_offline(), in line with the other tests that reach the BOM servers.

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The get_available_imagery() and get_satellite_imagery() tests, which read from the BOM FTP server, now skip_on_cran() so an unreachable FTP server cannot fail the CRAN check.

Documentation

The README no longer lists agriculture bulletins among the BOM data available. get_ag_bulletin() and parse_ag_bulletin() were removed in 3.0.0.
The package website provides an llms.txt for LLM-based agents, with a Markdown version of every page: <https://docs.ropensci.org/weatherOz/llms.txt>.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("weatherOz", 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("ropensci/weatherOz")

Development version from ropensci/weatherOz. 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-weatheroz

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-weatherOz

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-weatherOz

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: 7.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-11
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

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WebsiteYes · pkgdown

Vignettes (6)

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Downloads

5.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,654 · ~14/day · ~439/mo

weatherOz Releases R versions

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58930 days

1.4K90 days

5.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/weatheroz ↗Organization: ropensci

40Stars

10Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

1,461Commits

10Commit identities

australiarstatsweatherclimateapi-clientdataweather-apiweather-forecast

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,461 commits · Last activity 2026-09-23 · +2.6% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/weatheroz 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 (3)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)Contributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-03-09

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing weatherOz adds 50 packages (33 with compiled code, 46 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, magick 4.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

apsimx clock crayon curl crul data.table (>= 1.1.5)foreigngrDevicesjsonlite knitr lubridate magickmethodssf starsstatsterrautilsxml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

covr dplyr ggplot2 ggthemesgridgridExtra mailR mapproj maps rmarkdown roxyglobals spelling testthat (>= 3.0.0)usethis vcr vdiffr withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (20)

Rodrigo Pires

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2024)

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Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Identified data structure issues and provided insights that improved package data quality and usability.

Steve Collins

Contributor

Designed the hex logo for 'weatherOz' hex logo.

Max Moldovan

Contributor

Contributed valuable feedback on package usage leading to improvements in the package structure and functionality.

Jimmy Ng

Contributor

Keith Pembleton

Contributor

Contributed code and ideas for original bomrang package that was used in the creation of weatherOz.

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor

Contributed to debugging a nasty little bug with CI where timezones caused tests to fail due to vcr not recognising the…

Curtin University

Copyright holder

Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA)

Copyright holder

Laurens Geffert

Reviewer

Sam Rogers

Reviewer

Releases (6)

3.0.1Latest
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2026-09-29 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.0
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2026-04-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
parse_ag_bulletin

added 5 exports
get_metno_daily_forecast, get_metno_forecast, metno_get_dominant_symbol, metno_resample_data_table, metno_timeseries_to_data_table
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-09-19
2.0.2
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2025-09-19 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-08-25
policy violation On Internet access
2.0.1
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2025-04-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-03-11
2.0.0
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2025-03-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_ag_bulletin
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-03-10
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.0
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2024-07-26
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-26
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 3.6 MB

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Hydrological Data and Modeling

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Format

Pires, R., Curtin University, Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA), Bradshaw, S., Carroll, J., Collins, S., Geffert, L., Goldie, J., Hepworth, A., Marchiori, D., Melloy, P., Moldovan, M., Ng, J., O'Leary, R., Padgham, M., Parsonage, H., Pembleton, K., Rogers, S., Salmon, M., & Sparks, A. H. (2026). weatherOz: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources (Version 3.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.weatherOz

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for weatherOz version 3.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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