R Observatory: Metrics for whitewater version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

whitewater

0.1.4Package record

Parallel Processing Options for Package 'dataRetrieval'

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

68.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Josh EricksonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides methods for retrieving United States Geological Survey (USGS) water data using sequential and parallel processing (Bengtsson, 2022 doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-048). In addition to parallel methods, data wrangling and additional statistical attributes are provided.

Changes in 0.1.4

Added parallely to suggests and added parallely::availableCores() in examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("whitewater", 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("joshualerickson/whitewater")

Development version from joshualerickson/whitewater. 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-whitewater

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-whitewater

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-whitewater

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: 2.0 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.4

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 0%9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,269 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30230 days

83090 days

2.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

joshualerickson/whitewater ↗Account: joshualerickson

11Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

73Commits

3Commit identities

73 commits · Last activity 2026-02-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-05 · 82026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joshualerickson/whitewater on 2026-10-21.

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 (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-17

pkgdown site last built 2023-02-05, before release 0.1.4 (2026-02-03)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing whitewater adds 74 packages (44 with compiled code, 60 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (14)

dataRetrieval dplyr cli crayon furrr httr plyr purrr stringr usethis lubridate readr tidyr future

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

ggplot2 covr rmarkdown knitr ggfx broom patchwork jsonlite Kendall parallelly testthat

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 (1)

Josh Erickson

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-03
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 1.8 MB / 1 file
Download size: 2.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("whitewater")

Format

Erickson, J. (2026). whitewater: Parallel Processing Options for Package 'dataRetrieval' (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.whitewater

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for whitewater version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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