CropWaterBalance

0.2.0

Climate Water Balance for Irrigation Purposes

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

97.8%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gabriel Constantino BlainFirst published 2024-04-181 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Calculates daily climate water balance for irrigation purposes and also calculates the reference evapotranspiration (ET) using three methods, Penman and Monteith (Allen et al. 1998, ISBN:92-5-104219-5); Priestley and Taylor (1972) doi:10/cr3qwn; or Hargreaves and Samani (1985) doi:10.13031/2013.26773. Users may specify a management allowed depletion (MAD), which is used to suggest when to irrigate. The functionality allows for the use of crop and water stress coefficients as well.

Install

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

install.packages("CropWaterBalance", 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("gabrielblain/CropWaterBalance")

Development version from gabrielblain/CropWaterBalance. 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-cropwaterbalance

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-CropWaterBalance

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-CropWaterBalance

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 3.49

97.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 2,301 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,231 · ~6/day · ~183/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15430 days

54590 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u1 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ gabrielblain/cropwaterbalance

6Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

185Commits

2Contributors

185 commits · Last activity 2024-07-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-05 · 62026-07-07 · 6

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gabrielblain/cropwaterbalance on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Show all practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.10

Imports (3)

PowerSDI lubridatestats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Gabriel Constantino Blain

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Gabriel Constantino Blain

Author, Maintainer

Leticia L. Martins

Author

Regina C. Matos Pires

Author

Graciela R. Sobierajski

Author

Adam H. Sparks

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-04-18
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.10
Bundled data: 6.0 KB / 3 files
Download size: 51 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Report a problem with this page →