R Observatory: Metrics for weathermetrics version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

weathermetrics

1.2.2Package record

Functions to Convert Between Weather Metrics

1packages dependsuggested by 1

10.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brooke AndersonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Functions to convert between weather metrics, including conversions for metrics of temperature, air moisture, wind speed, and precipitation. This package also includes functions to calculate the heat index from air temperature and air moisture.

Changes in 1.2.2

Added new functions to convert wind speed and precipitation:

**convert_wind_speed:** Convert a vector of wind speed measurements between common units of wind speed measure (in knots, miles per hour, meters per second, feet per second, and kilometers per hour).
**convert_precip:** Convert a vector of precipitation measurements between common units of precipitation measure (in inches, millimeters, and centimeters).
**convert_temperature:** Convert a vector of temperature values between common units of temperature measure (in degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvins)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("weathermetrics", 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("geanders/weathermetrics")

Development version from geanders/weathermetrics. 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-weathermetrics

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-weathermetrics

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-weathermetrics

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Brooke Anderson <brooke.anderson@colostate.edu>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 28includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 32%

Vignettes (1)

weathermetrics HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

10.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,760 · ~29/day · ~895/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

63230 days

1.8K90 days

10.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

geanders/weathermetrics ↗Account: geanders

23Stars

6Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

184Commits

6Commit identities

184 commits · Last activity 2017-05-18 · Default branch at 1.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.2.2 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/geanders/weathermetrics on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing weathermetrics adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

ClimInd

Suggests, most downloaded first

riem

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Brooke Anderson

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2012)

Joshua Ferreri

Author · added in 1.2.2

Roger Peng

Author

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2.15.2Latest
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2012-07-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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1.2.2
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2016-05-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
celsius.to.kelvin, convert_precip, convert_temperature, convert_wind_speed, fahrenheit.to.kelvin, inches_to_metric, kelvin.to.celsius, kelvin.to.fahrenheit, knots_to_speed, metric_to_inches, speed_to_knots
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2015-12-22 · diff ↗ ·
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added 6 exports
celsius.to.fahrenheit, dewpoint.to.humidity, fahrenheit.to.celsius, heat.index, heat.index.algorithm, humidity.to.dewpoint
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2012-08-07
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-30
Total releases: 4 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 1.2.2
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.5 KB / 10 files
Download size: 32 KB

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("weathermetrics")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for weathermetrics version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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