bioRad

0.12.0

Biological Analysis and Visualization of Weather Radar Data

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Overview

About

Maintained by Adriaan M. DokterFirst published 2018-12-1417 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Extract, visualize and summarize aerial movements of birds and insects from weather radar data. See Dokter, A. M. et al. (2018) "bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data" doi:10.1111/ecog.04028 for a software paper describing package and methodologies.

Install

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

install.packages("bioRad", 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("adokter/bioRad")

Development version from adokter/bioRad. 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-biorad

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 11.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 626 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 89%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ adokter/biorad

31Stars

20Forks

53Open issues

2Open PRs

20Releases

3,465Commits

21Contributors

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3,465 commits · Last activity 2026-07-29 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

36 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (29)

assertthat curl dplyr fields ggplot2 gluegraphicshttr2 jsonlite lifecycle lubridate lutzmethodsraster readr rhdf5 rlang sf spstatsstringr suntools terra tidyr tidyselectutilsviridis viridisLite xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

elevatr getRad ggspatial knitr prettymapr rmarkdown rosm testthat vdiffr vol2birdR withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

getRad

Code & Tests

People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Adriaan M. Dokter

Author, Maintainer

Authors (6)

Adriaan M. Dokter

Author, Maintainer

Peter Desmet

Author

Bart Kranstauber

Author · added in 0.5.0

Cecilia Nilsson

Author · added in 0.5.2

Alexander Tedeschi

Author · added in 0.7.1

Stijn Van Hoey

Author

Contributors (8)

Bart Hoekstra

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Pieter Huybrechts

Contributor · added in 0.7.1

Hidde Leijnse

Contributor

Nicolas Noé

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Raphaël Nussbaumer

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Jurriaan Spaaks

Contributor

Lourens Veen

Contributor

Liesbeth Verlinden

Contributor

Package Timeline

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

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-07-27
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2024-07-06
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-14
Total releases: 17 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 4 files
Download size: 4.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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