R Observatory: Metrics for VIC5 version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

VIC5

0.2.6

The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Hydrological Model

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

39.4%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dongdong KongFirst published 2021-09-135 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model is a macroscale hydrologic model that solves full water and energy balances, originally developed by Xu Liang at the University of Washington (UW). The version of VIC source code used is of 5.0.1 on https://github.com/UW-Hydro/VIC/, see Hamman et al. (2018). Development and maintenance of the current official version of the VIC model at present is led by the UW Hydro (Computational Hydrology group) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW. VIC is a research model and in its various forms it has been applied to most of the major river basins around the world, as well as globally http://vic.readthedocs.io/en/master/Documentation/References/. References: "Liang, X., D. P. Lettenmaier, E. F. Wood, and S. J. Burges (1994), A simple hydrologically based model of land surface water and energy fluxes for general circulation models, J. Geophys. Res., 99(D7), 14415-14428, doi:10.1029/94JD00483"; "Hamman, J. J., Nijssen, B., Bohn, T. J., Gergel, D. R., and Mao, Y. (2018), The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3481-3496, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-3481-2018".

Install

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

install.packages("VIC5", 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("rpkgs/VIC5")

Development version from rpkgs/VIC5. 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-vic5

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-VIC5

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-VIC5

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

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
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NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

39.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-04-22
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
0 OK · 13 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 376 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 56%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,348 · ~7/day · ~219/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16830 days

70590 days

2.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rpkgs/vic5

10Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

49Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 49 commits · Last activity 2026-01-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-18 · 82026-07-07 · 10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rpkgs/vic5 on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (5)

statsutilslubridate Rcpp foreach

LinkingTo (2)

RcppArmadillo Rcpp

Suggests (2)

testthat doParallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Dongdong Kong

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Authors (5)

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Contributors (6)

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Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.6Latest
2023-02-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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0.2.2
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-13
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 455 KB / 2 files
Download size: 765 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Hydrological Data and Modeling

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("VIC5")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.VIC5

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{VIC5,
  title  = {VIC5: The Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Hydrological Model},
  author = {Kong, Dongdong and Chen, Xiaohong and Cherkauer, Keith and Hamman, Joseph J and Lai, Chengguang and Wang, Zhaoli and Zhong, Ruida},
  year   = {2023},
  note   = {R package version 0.2.6},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.VIC5},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=VIC5}
}

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This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

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BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryVIC5,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {VIC5} version 0.2.6},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/VIC5},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VIC5 version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/VIC5

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for VIC5 version 0.2.6
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/VIC5
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/VIC5.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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