chirps

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API Client for CHIRPS and CHIRTS

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Overview

About

Maintained by Kauê de SousaFirst published 2020-07-034 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

API Client for the Climate Hazards Center 'CHIRPS' and 'CHIRTS'. The 'CHIRPS' data is a quasi-global (50°S – 50°N) high-resolution (0.05 arc-degrees) rainfall data set, which incorporates satellite imagery and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. 'CHIRTS' is a quasi-global (60°S – 70°N), high-resolution data set of daily maximum and minimum temperatures. For more details on 'CHIRPS' and 'CHIRTS' data please visit its official home page https://www.chc.ucsb.edu/data.

Install

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

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

Development version from ropensci/chirps. 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-chirps

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-chirps

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-chirps

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

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Rank #3,916 · ~32/day · ~971/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/chirps

36Stars

13Forks

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3Releases

360Commits

5Contributors

climatologyprecipitation-datarstatschirps

360 commits · Last activity 2026-06-23 · +2.9% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Research and citation (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (5)

httr jsonlite sfstatsterra

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

climatrends knitr markdown rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

apsimx climatrends gosset

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Kauê de Sousa

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Kauê de Sousa

Author, Maintainer

Aniruddha Ghosh

Author · added in 0.1.4

Adam H. Sparks

Author

Contributors (2)

William Ashmall

Contributor

Pete Peterson

Contributor · added in 0.1.4

Other (2)

Svein Ø. Solberg

Thesis advisor

Jacob van Etten

Thesis advisor

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-07-03
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 51 KB / 1 file
Download size: 871 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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