CRAN Task View: Hydrological Data and Modeling by Sam Albers and Ilaria Prosodocimi

R is a popular open-source statistical computing language which has gained popularity in many fields of applied sciences as a data analysis and general purpose scripting tool. One of the great assets of the R language is the ease of installation of R packages, which extend the capabilities of the programming language through community written add-ons to the base installation. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) acts as a central repository for R and its packages, and maintains the so-called Task Views, which are curated lists of packages useful for a particular field or application. The Hydrology Task View is one of the many task views available on the CRAN website: it references more than 100 packages under the broad categories of Data Retrieval, Data Analysis and Modeling. The Task View is an excellent place to start exploring the many additional tools made available to the hydrological community by open-source developers who make their software available on CRAN or on external repositories such as Github or R-Forge. The packages listed in the Task View allow R users to perform a number of tasks related to hydrology, such as download hydrological data from (inter-)national repositories or generate synthetic data, manipulate data, calibrate and run hydrological models, and estimate statistical quantities of interest. We have examined the inter-connectedness of the Hydrology Task View by visualizing which packages depend on each other using a network graph. The graph illustrates groupings of packages that work with the same data, use the same methods or are otherwise similar for hydrological analysis. R users who are interested in hydrology are invited to contribute to the Task View by suggesting packages which they consider to be useful.

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