thredds

0.1-4

Crawler for Navigating THREDDS Catalogs

1packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

6.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Emmanuel BlondelFirst published 2022-02-095 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a crawler for programmatically navigating THREDDS Data Server (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/tds/) catalogs, and access dataset metadata and resources.

Install

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

install.packages("thredds", 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("BigelowLab/thredds")

Development version from BigelowLab/thredds. 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-thredds

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-thredds

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

6.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 774 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 69%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,829 · ~11/day · ~325/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bigelowlab/thredds

4Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

58Commits

2Contributors

58 commits · Last activity 2025-02-28

Stars over time

2024-02-15 · 42026-07-07 · 4

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bigelowlab/thredds on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (5)

R6 rlang magrittr httr xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

ncdf4 testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

geoflow

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Emmanuel Blondel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Emmanuel Blondel

Author, Maintainer

Ben Tupper

Author

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. 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
0.1-4Latest
2023-09-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1-3
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
0.1-2
2022-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1-1
2022-02-14 · diff ↗
0.1
2022-02-09
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-09
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 18 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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