ecmwfr

2.0.3

Interface to 'ECMWF' and 'CDS' Data Web Services

3packages depend

22.6Kdownloads / year

36.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Koen HufkensFirst published 2019-01-1714 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Programmatic interface to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts dataset web services (ECMWF; https://www.ecmwf.int/) and Copernicus's Data Stores. Allows for easy downloads of weather forecasts and climate reanalysis data in R. Data stores covered include the Climate Data Store (CDS; https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu), Atmosphere Data Store (ADS; https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu) and Early Warning Data Store (CEMS; https://ewds.climate.copernicus.eu).

Install

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

install.packages("ecmwfr", 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("bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr")

Development version from bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr. 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-ecmwfr

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-ecmwfr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

36.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

22.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,817 · ~62/day · ~1.9K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr

138Stars

35Forks

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0Open PRs

7Releases

736Commits

8Contributors

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736 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · +0.7% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (6)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

chillR clim4health rIACI

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Koen Hufkens

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Koen Hufkens

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (2)

Elio Campitelli

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Reto Stauffer

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Koen Hufkens

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Funders (1)

BlueGreen Labs

Funder · added in 1.4.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-17
Total releases: 14 / 7 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 340 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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