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GCD

Global Charcoal Database

v4.0.7 · Oct 26, 2020 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Contains the Global Charcoal database data. Data include charcoal series (age, depth, charcoal quantity, associated units and methods) and information on sedimentary sites (localisation, depositional environment, biome, etc.) as well as publications informations. Since 4.0.0 the GCD mirrors the online SQL database at <http://paleofire.org>.

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25

Last 90 days

98

Last year

Trend: -100% (30d vs prior 30d)

autoCRAN

4

Last 7 days

14

Last 30 days

3

All-time

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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.
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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

dependencies in R code

Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’
  All declared Imports should be used.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

dependencies in R code

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  All declared Imports should be used.

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NOTE 7 OK · 7 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = 
...[truncated]...
ut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Olivier Blarquez <blarquez@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Global", "Paleofire", "Working"),
                      family = "Group",
                      role = 
...[truncated]...
ut",
                      email = "paleofire@univ-fcomte.fr"),
               person(given = "Olivier",
                      family = "Blarquez",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "blarquez@gmail.com"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

dependencies in R code

Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’
  All declared Imports should be used.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

dependencies in R code

Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’
  All declared Imports should be used.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

package dependencies

Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘paleofire’
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package dependencies

Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘paleofire’
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

package dependencies

Package suggested but not available for checking: 'paleofire'

Code

Structure

Lines of code

801

Files

36

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 363 (45.3%)Docs 438 (54.7%)

API

Exported functions

0

Internal functions

0

Testing & CI

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.5.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 2)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

14

First release

2013-10-11

Latest release

2020-10-26

Avg cadence

100 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

7

LOC over versions

v3.0: 146 LOCv3.0.1: 391 LOCv3.0.2: 391 LOCv3.0.3: 421 LOCv3.0.4: 423 LOCv3.0.5: 380 LOCv4.0.0: 467 LOCv4.0.1: 467 LOCv4.0.2: 474 LOCv4.0.3: 474 LOCv4.0.4: 474 LOCv4.0.5: 611 LOCv4.0.6: 611 LOCv4.0.7: 801 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies raster GCD

Version History

15 tracked
new 4.0.7 Mar 10, 2026
updated 4.0.7 ← 4.0.6 diff Oct 25, 2020
updated 4.0.6 ← 4.0.5 diff Feb 27, 2020
updated 4.0.5 ← 4.0.4 diff Dec 10, 2019
updated 4.0.4 ← 4.0.3 diff Nov 27, 2018
updated 4.0.3 ← 4.0.2 diff Aug 19, 2018
updated 4.0.2 ← 4.0.1 diff May 1, 2018
updated 4.0.1 ← 4.0.0 diff Mar 26, 2018
updated 4.0.0 ← 3.0.5 diff Feb 28, 2018
updated 3.0.5 ← 3.0.4 diff Apr 21, 2015
updated 3.0.4 ← 3.0.3 diff May 21, 2014
updated 3.0.3 ← 3.0.2 diff Apr 30, 2014
updated 3.0.2 ← 3.0.1 diff Apr 8, 2014
updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0 diff Mar 12, 2014
new 3.0 Nov 14, 2013