RavenR package now online

[jrcraig]

Hi Raven Users! A powerful new package of R utilities developed by R. Chlumsky for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing Raven output is now online at http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/jrcraig/Raven/Downloads.html. The documentation and tutorial is really high quality, so we hope you decide to try it out!

[surajitdb]

I must congratulate R. Chlumsky for such good work. I have been learning R and using it. Hence, this has come at the right time as I will find easier to handle Raven outputs. I have been trying to install RavenR, but getting error for my R version 3.2.5. All the dependencies were installed prior. I got the following error:

> install.packages('RavenR_1.0.0.tar.gz', repos = NULL, type="source")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/hp/Documents/R/win-library/3.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.5/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\hp\Documents\R\win-library\3.2" "RavenR_1.0.0.tar.gz"' had status 127
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘RavenR_1.0.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
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Thanking you.

Regards,
Surajit

[rchlumsk]

Hi Surajit, I am happy to see some excitement over the package, I hope it will be useful for you. Please feel free to post or email to me any suggestions you have for updating the package.

As to the error, there does not seem to be a clear solution from other people who have had the same error code. By best guess is that it is a version issue, since the package was developed on my system under version 3.3. I would suggest that you:

1) First ensure that the dependent libraries are indeed installed in the same library path that RavenR is trying to install in, i.e. ‘C:/Users/hp/Documents/R/win-library/3.2’, although it does not appear to be a dependency issue from the error messages
2) Update your R version to 3.3 or 3.4, and retry the installation (you may have to reinstall the dependent packages and other packages you have installed, as a new library path will be created for the new version)

Please let me know whether that works or not, I can look into this further if not.

Cheers,
Rob

[surajitdb]

Hi Robert,
Yes I could successfully installed RavenR on R 3.4.0. I would run latest version of R on my system, but as I couldn't run a hydrological package on the later version, I had to install older version of R 3.2.5. Now, I am having both the versions on my system. I have tried running RavenR by following the code provided by you in the tutorial. I could run successfully, excepting the commands on lines 191, 193 and 198 of RavenR_Tutorial.R :
> flow.residuals(sim,obs)
Error in month(base[ep[1]]) : object 'base' not found
> flow.residuals(sim,obs,ma.smooth=10)
Error in month(base[ep[1]]) : object 'base' not found
> monthly.vbias(sim,obs)
Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘RobBox’

I tried to find RoBBox package for R 3.4.0, but it was not available for the current version.

I have emailed you the same.

Thanking you.

Regards,

Surajit

[rchlumsk]

Hi Surajit

I have updated the RavenR package to resolve the issues you mentioned. The updated v1.0.1 has some bug fixes and now set to require R >= v3.3 to avoid the installation error with older versions. The updated version will be available for download shortly.

Cheers,
Rob

[Symona]

Hello,
this is a great and very helpfull package! Thank you!
Will there be (or is there) a function for reading in the ExhaustiveMassBalance.csv?

[rchlumsk]

Hi Symona,

I am glad you like the package. There is not currently but I have made note to include such a function for the next development. There is still a lot ongoing with updating the package so please let me know if you have any other suggestions for missing functions.

Cheers,
Rob

[kenedy]

I congratulate you for this great job....well done.

[rchlumsk]

Thanks kenedy, glad to hear you like it. It is still being actively developed, so please let me know via forum or email if you have any suggestions or bugs to report.

Cheers,
Rob