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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| Flavor | Status |
|---|---|
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang | NOTE |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | NOTE |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang | NOTE |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc | NOTE |
| r-devel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-windows-x86_64 | OK |
Check details (4 non-OK)
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.
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.
dependencies in R code
Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’ All declared Imports should be used.
dependencies in R code
Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’ All declared Imports should be used.
Check History
NOTE 7 OK · 7 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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.
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.
dependencies in R code
Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’ All declared Imports should be used.
dependencies in R code
Namespace in Imports field not imported from: ‘raster’ All declared Imports should be used.
package dependencies
Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘paleofire’
package dependencies
Package suggested but not available for checking: ‘paleofire’
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
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
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.