R Observatory: Metrics for envar version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-08-21 or it will be archived.

envar

0.1.0

Download and Process Environmental Variables

0packages depend

40downloads / year

–test coverage

12/12checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea SimonciniFirst published 2026-07-311 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a unified interface to download, harmonise and extract a wide range of environmental and socio-economic variables from established open data web services (such as 'WorldClim' https://www.worldclim.org/, 'CHELSA' https://chelsa-climate.org/ and 'Bio-ORACLE' https://www.bio-oracle.org/, among others) for use in macroecology and biogeography. The package handles spatial subsetting to a study area, reprojection to a common coordinate reference system, and extraction of values at sampling points, so that predictors from heterogeneous sources can be assembled within a single reproducible workflow. Helper functions for collinearity checking and variable exploration are also included.

Install

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

install.packages("envar", 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("animalbiodiversitylab/envar")

Development version from animalbiodiversitylab/envar. 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-envar

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-envar

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

12OK

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

96%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-02
8 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-08-01
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 521 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 8%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

40

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,666 · ~0/day · ~3/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ animalbiodiversitylab/envar

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144 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/animalbiodiversitylab/envar on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (12)

terra dplyr httr sf rnaturalearth usdm corrplot cli fsutilsdigest rangeBuilder

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown rnaturalearthdata

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Andrea Simoncini

Author, Maintainer

Authors (7)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Author

Gentile Francesco Ficetola

Author

Elia Lo Parrino

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-07-31 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-31
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.4 MB / 3 files
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

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

citation("envar")

CRAN DOI

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

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{envar,
  title  = {envar: Download and Process Environmental Variables},
  author = {Simoncini, Andrea and Bertoncini, Michele and Cerofolini, Andrea and Dalpasso, Andrea and Falaschi, Mattia and Ficetola, Gentile Francesco and Lo Parrino, Elia},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 0.1.0},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.envar},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=envar}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

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

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryenvar,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {envar} version 0.1.0},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/envar},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for envar version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/envar

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for envar version 0.1.0
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/envar
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/envar.

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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