weatherOz

3.0.0

An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources

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4.8Kdownloads / year

87.3%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Rodrigo PiresFirst published 2024-07-265 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.36

87.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 1 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 845 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 42%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 38%

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,110 · ~13/day · ~396/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/weatheroz

37Stars

10Forks

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0Open PRs

6Releases

1,460Commits

10Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 1,460 commits · Last activity 2026-04-09

Repository practices

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

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none

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People & History

People (20)

Maintainer (1)

Rodrigo Pires

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Contributors (6)

Stephen Bradshaw

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

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Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA)

Reviewers (2)

Laurens Geffert

Reviewer

Sam Rogers

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Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.0Latest
2026-04-08 · current release · diff ↗
2.0.2
2025-09-19 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-09-19
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-08-25
policy violation On Internet access
2.0.1
2025-04-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.0
2025-03-11 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-03-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-03-10
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.0
2024-07-26
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-26
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 46 KB / 5 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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