Compute the standard suite of climate indices from daily weather observations. Provides the canonical 'ETCCDI' 27 (Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices), the 'ET-SCI' heatwave and cold-wave families plus the Excess Heat Factor of Nairn and Fawcett (2013), and agroclimatic, drought, and human-comfort families. Drought indices ('SPI', 'SPEI') accept a choice of distribution (gamma or Pearson III for SPI; log-logistic or generalised extreme value for SPEI). Reference evapotranspiration is available via Hargreaves and the FAO-56 Penman-Monteith method (Allen et al. 1998). Percentile-based indices support the Zhang (2005) in-base bootstrap. Daily inputs are numeric vectors plus a 'Date' vector; outputs are tidy data frames. Optional gridded support via 'terra' applies any index over a 'SpatRaster' and reads 'netCDF' input. No external API calls; pairs with data packages such as 'readnoaa'. References: Alexander et al. (2006) <doi:10.1029/2005JD006290>; Zhang et al. (2011) <doi:10.1002/wcc.147>; Zhang et al. (2005) <doi:10.1175/JCLI3366.1>.
| Version: | 0.2.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli (≥ 3.6.0), stats, tools |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0), terra, ncdf4, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-05-09 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.climatekit |
| Author: | Charles Coverdale [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/charlescoverdale/climatekit/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://charlescoverdale.github.io/climatekit/, https://github.com/charlescoverdale/climatekit |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-GB |
| Citation: | climatekit citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | climatekit results |
| Reference manual: | climatekit.html , climatekit.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Migrating from climdex.pcic (source, R code) |
| Package source: | climatekit_0.2.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: climatekit_0.2.0.zip, r-release: climatekit_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: climatekit_0.2.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): climatekit_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): climatekit_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): climatekit_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): climatekit_0.2.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | climatekit archive |
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