vol2birdR: Vertical Profiles of Biological Signals in Weather Radar Data

'R' implementation of the 'vol2bird' software for generating vertical profiles of birds and other biological signals in weather radar data. See Dokter et al. (2011) <doi:10.1098/rsif.2010.0116> for a paper describing the methodology.

Version: 1.2.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: assertthat, methods, pkgbuild, Rcpp (≥ 1.0.4), rlang, utils, withr
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppGSL
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-09-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.vol2birdR
Author: Anders Henja [aut] (vol2birdR package author and author of RAVE and HLHDF libraries), Adriaan M. Dokter ORCID iD [aut, cre], Alexander Tedeschi ORCID iD [ctb], Tsung-Yu Lin [ctb] (contributor MistNet segmentation model), Subranshu Maji [ctb] (contributor MistNet segmentation model), Daniel Sheldon [ctb] (contributor MistNet segmentation model), Bart Kranstauber ORCID iD [ctb], Jurriaan H. Spaaks [ctb] (contributor to vol2bird library), Lourens Veen [ctb] (contributor to vol2bird library), Iwan Holleman [ctb] (contributor to vol2bird library), Hidde Leijnse [ctb] (contributor to vol2bird library), John H. Merritt [ctb, cph] (author of RSL library), Bart Kelley [ctb] (contributor and maintainer of RSL library), Mark Couture [ctb] (author of iris2odim add-on to RAVE library), Daniel Falbel [ctb] (contributor of original idea for building with torch support), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI [cph] (copyright holder of HLHDF and RAVE libraries), GloBAM [fnd] (https://globam.science)
Maintainer: Adriaan M. Dokter <vol2birdr at cornell.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/adokter/vol2birdR/issues
License: LGPL (≥ 3)
Copyright: file COPYRIGHTS
vol2birdR copyright details
URL: https://github.com/adokter/vol2birdR/, https://adriaandokter.com/vol2bird/
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: GNU make, GSL, HDF5, PROJ
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: vol2birdR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: vol2birdR.html , vol2birdR.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to vol2birdR (source)

Downloads:

Package source: vol2birdR_1.2.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: vol2birdR_1.2.1.zip, r-release: vol2birdR_1.2.1.zip, r-oldrel: vol2birdR_1.2.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): vol2birdR_1.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): vol2birdR_1.2.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): vol2birdR_1.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): vol2birdR_1.2.1.tgz
Old sources: vol2birdR archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: bioRad, getRad

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