R Observatory: Metrics for sooty version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sooty

0.6.1Package record

Data Source Catalogues Online for Southern Ocean Ecosystem Research

0packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

61.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael D. SumnerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Obtains lists of files of remote sensing collections for Southern Ocean surface properties. Commonly used data sources of sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration, and altimetry products such as sea surface height and sea surface currents are cached in object storage on the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre facility. Patterns of working to retrieve data from these object storage catalogues are described. The catalogues include complete collections of datasets Reynolds et al. (2008) "NOAA Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) Analysis, Version 2.1" doi:10.7289/V5SQ8XB5, Spreen et al. (2008) "Artist Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea ice concentration" doi:10.1029/2005JC003384. In future releases helpers will be added to identify particular data collections and target specific dates for earth observation data for reading, as well as helpers to retrieve data set citation and provenance details. This work was supported by resources provided by the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia. This software was developed by the Integrated Digital East Antarctica program of the Australian Antarctic Division.

Changes in 0.6.1

Sooty cache is now never installed into user space during any examples / document / test / build / install / check processes, thanks to CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sooty", 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("mdsumner/sooty")

Development version from mdsumner/sooty. 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-sooty

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-sooty

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-sooty

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.6.1

READMEYes · 420 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,081 · ~16/day · ~490/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34430 days

1K90 days

5.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mdsumner/sooty ↗Account: mdsumner

3Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

53Commits

2Commit identities

53 commits · Last activity 2026-03-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 54
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mdsumner/sooty 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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-11
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sooty adds 21 packages (14 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: arrow 4.2 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (4)

arrow curl S7 tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

spelling testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michael D. Sumner

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Aleks Terauds

Copyright holder, Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Provided logo photo from p116 of 'Subantarctic wilderness: Macquarie Island, 2007(978-1741753028)'

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.1Latest
record
2026-03-10 · current release · diff ↗
0.6.0
record
2026-03-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
sooty_cache_info
0.5.0
record
2025-05-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
available_datasets, dataset, datasource
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2024-12-06
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-06
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sooty")

Format

Sumner, M. D., & Terauds, A. (2026). sooty: Data Source Catalogues Online for Southern Ocean Ecosystem Research (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sooty

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 sooty version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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