neonUtilities

4.0.1

Utilities for Working with NEON Data

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30.6Kdownloads / year

10.0%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Claire LunchFirst published 2018-11-0335 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

NEON data packages can be accessed through the NEON Data Portal https://www.neonscience.org or through the NEON Data API (see https://data.neonscience.org/data-api for documentation). Data delivered from the Data Portal are provided as monthly zip files packaged within a parent zip file, while individual files can be accessed from the API. This package provides tools that aid in discovering, downloading, and reformatting data prior to use in analyses. This includes downloading data via the API, merging data tables by type, and converting formats. For more information, see the readme file at https://github.com/NEONScience/NEON-utilities.

Install

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

install.packages("neonUtilities", 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("NEONScience/NEON-utilities")

Development version from NEONScience/NEON-utilities. 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-neonutilities

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-neonUtilities

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

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Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 3,183 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 24%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 93%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ neonscience/neon-utilities

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (16)

httr jsonlite jose downloader data.tableutilsR.utilsstatstidyr dplyr pbapplyparallelcurl arrow rlang duckdbfs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rhdf5 terra testthat fasttime

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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ecocomDP neonPlantEcology neonSoilFlux Z10 neonOS neonstore

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Claire Lunch

Author, Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (6)

Claire Lunch

Author, Maintainer, Contributor

NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network)

Author · added in 1.3.4

Kaelin Cawley