Package: getRad 0.3.0.9000

Bart Kranstauber

getRad: Download Radar Data for Biological Research

Load polar volume and vertical profile data for aeroecological research directly into R. With 'getRad' you can access data from several sources in Europe and the US and standardize it to facilitate further exploration in tools such as 'bioRad'.

Authors:Bart Kranstauber [aut, cre], Pieter Huybrechts [aut], Peter Desmet [aut], Cecilia Nilsson [ctb], Alexander Tedeschi [ctb], Hidde Leijnse [ctb], Bart Hoekstra [ctb], University of Amsterdam [cph], Biodiversa+ [fnd]

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getRad/json (API)

# Install 'getRad' in R:

install.packages('getRad', repos = c('https://aloftdata.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/aloftdata/getrad/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://aloftdata.github.io

On CRAN:

oscibio radar

6.61 score 3 stars 27 scripts 414 downloads 6 exports 83 dependencies

Last updated from:0b6594c4ed. Checks:3 ERROR, 6 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	ERROR	358
source / vignettes	OK	237
linux-release-x86_64	ERROR	352
macos-release-arm64	ERROR	155
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	287
windows-devel	OK	308
windows-release	OK	315
windows-oldrel	OK	354
wasm-release	OK	188

Exports:get_pvol get_secret get_vpts get_vpts_coverage get_weather_radars set_secret

Dependencies:askpass assertthat biocmake bioRad bit bit64 cachem class classInt cli clipr cpp11 crayon curl DBI dir.expiry dotCall64 dplyr e1071 farver fastmap fields filelock generics ggplot2 glue gridExtra gtable hms httr2 isoband jsonlite KernSmooth labeling lattice lifecycle lubridate lutz magrittr maps MASS openssl pillar pkgconfig prettyunits progress proxy purrr R6 rappdirs raster RColorBrewer Rcpp readr rhdf5 rhdf5filters Rhdf5lib rlang s2 S7 scales sf sp spam stringi stringr suntools sys terra tibble tidyr tidyselect timechange tzdb units utf8 vctrs viridis viridisLite vroom withr wk xml2

Supported sources

Polar volume (PVOL) data | Vertical profile time series (VPTS) data | Aloft: baltrad, uva or ecog-04003 | rmi | BirdCast

Rendered fromsupported_sources.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2026-06-29
Started: 2025-05-19

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Get polar volume (PVOL) data from supported sources	get_pvol
Get vertical profile time series (VPTS) data from supported sources	get_vpts
Get VPTS file coverage from supported sources	get_vpts_coverage
Get weather radar metadata	get_weather_radars
Set or get secrets from the keyring	get_secret set_secret