FedData

4.3.0

Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

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Overview

About

Maintained by R. Kyle BocinskyFirst published 2015-02-1340 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Download geospatial data available from several federated data sources (mainly sources maintained by the US Federal government). Currently, the package enables extraction from nine datasets: The National Elevation Dataset digital elevation models (https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program 1 and 1/3 arc-second; USGS); The National Hydrography Dataset (https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset; USGS); The Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database from the National Cooperative Soil Survey (https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/; NCSS), which is led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the USDA; the Global Historical Climatology Network (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global-historical-climatology-network-daily; GHCN), coordinated by National Climatic Data Center at NOAA; the Daymet gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, version 4, available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Distributed Active Archive Center (https://daymet.ornl.gov/; DAAC); the International Tree Ring Data Bank; the National Land Cover Database (https://www.mrlc.gov/; NLCD); the Cropland Data Layer from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php; NASS); and the PAD-US dataset of protected area boundaries (https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-overview; USGS).

Install

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

install.packages("FedData", 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/FedData")

Development version from ropensci/FedData. 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-feddata

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

# 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-FedData

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

1.2%

Coverage · measured lines

98%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 424 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 7%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Rank #4,351 · ~48/day · ~1.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/feddata

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2Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

614Commits

10Contributors

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614 commits · Last activity 2026-06-12 · +1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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codemeta.json

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

curl httr dplyr tibble tidyr stringr igraph xml2 lifecycle lubridate progress purrr readr terra sf ggplot2 glue magrittr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

arcgislayers knitr leaflet mapview ncdf4 rmapshaper testthat usethis

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

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wxgenR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

R. Kyle Bocinsky

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

R. Kyle Bocinsky

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (3)

Dylan Beaudette

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor, Reviewer · added in 3.0.0

Jeffrey Hollister

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

R. Kyle Bocinsky

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Reviewers (2)

Scott Chamberlain

Contributor, Reviewer · added in 3.0.0

Julia Gustavsen

Reviewer · added in 3.0.0

Listed in earlier versions (4)

R. Kyle Bocinsky Dylan Beaudette <Dylan.Beaudette@ca.usda.gov>

no longer listed · 1.1.0 to 2.0.3

Beaudette

no longer listed · 2.0.4 to 2.5.7

Bocinsky

no longer listed · 2.0.4 to 4.3.0

Chamberlain

no longer listed · 2.0.5 to 2.5.7

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-02-13
Total releases: 40 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 4.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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