rnrfa

2.1.0.7

UK National River Flow Archive Data from R

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6.5Kdownloads / year

69.3%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ilaria ProsdocimiFirst published 2014-08-1523 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Utility functions to retrieve data from the UK National River Flow Archive (https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/, terms and conditions: https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/help/costs-terms-and-conditions). The package contains R wrappers to the UK NRFA data temporary-API. There are functions to retrieve stations falling in a bounding box, to generate a map and extracting time series and general information. The package is fully described in Vitolo et al (2016) "rnrfa: An R package to Retrieve, Filter and Visualize Data from the UK National River Flow Archive" https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016/RJ-2016-036/RJ-2016-036.pdf.

Install

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

install.packages("rnrfa", 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("ilapros/rnrfa")

Development version from ilapros/rnrfa. 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-rnrfa

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-rnrfa

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-rnrfa

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-release-macos-x86_64

Slowest check: 5.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.45

69.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-05-02
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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,864 · ~18/day · ~539/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ilapros/rnrfa

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1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

238Commits

6Contributors

238 commits · Last activity 2025-08-25

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/ilapros/rnrfa on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (13)

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none

Suggests (7)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Ilaria Prosdocimi

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 2.0.1

Authors (1)

Claudia Vitolo

Author

Contributors (5)

Ilaria Prosdocimi

Contributor, Maintainer · added in 2.0.1

Wouter Buytaert

Contributor · added in 0.5.3

Matthew Fry

Contributor

Tobias Gauster

Contributor · added in 1.4.0

Michael Spencer

Contributor · added in 0.5.4

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-15
Total releases: 23 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 366 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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