darksky

1.3.0

Tools to Work with the 'Dark Sky' 'API'

0packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

6.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bob RudisFirst published 2016-09-222 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides programmatic access to the 'Dark Sky' 'API' https://darksky.net/dev/docs, which provides current or historical global weather conditions.

Install

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

install.packages("darksky", 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("hrbrmstr/darksky")

Development version from hrbrmstr/darksky. 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-darksky

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

# 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-darksky

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hrbrmstr/darksky

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1Open PRs

2Releases

37Commits

3Contributors

rrstatsdarkskydarksky-apidarksky-api-powereddarksky-weather-apidarkskyapiweatherkit

37 commits · Last activity 2021-05-23 · +1.2% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (8)

statshttrgridgridExtra gtable ggplot2 plyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

David Severski

Contributor · added in 1.3.0

Lasse Vilhelmsen

Contributor

Package Timeline

2 releases. 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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.3.0Latest
2017-09-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.0
2016-09-22
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-22
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 7.4 KB
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