stplanr

A package for sustainable transport planning with R.

cycle cycling desire-lines origin-destination peer-reviewed pubic-transport r r-package route-network routes routing rstats spatial transport transport-planning transportation walking

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 21.1

dataRetrieval

This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data and metadata directly from web services.

r r-package rstats usgs

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 20.0

rfishbase

An R interface to the fishbase.org database.

fish fishbase r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 19.3

rotl

An R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data APIs.

peer-reviewed phylogeny r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 19.0

PRISM

Download data from the Oregon PRISM climate data project.

r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 18.7

tidyhydat

An R package to import Water Survey of Canada hydrometric data and make it tidy.

citz government-data hydrology hydrometrics r r-package rstats tidy-data water-resources

Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 18.6

FedData

R package implementing functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources in hydology, soil, climatology, cropland or landcover.

peer-reviewed r r-package rstats

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 18.4

rredlist

An R client for the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species.

api-wrapper biodiversity conservation iucn iucn-red-list r r-package rstats taxize

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 18.4

traits

R package for accessing species trait data from multiple databases.

api-client r r-package rstats species traits

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 18.4

spocc

An R package to query and collect species occurrence data from many sources.

antweb api bison data ebird ecoengine gbif idigbio inaturalist obis occurrence r r-package rstats species species-occurrence spocc vertnet

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 18.2

metR

Several functions and utilities that make R better for handling meteorological data in the tidy data paradigm.

atmospheric-science ggplot2 r r-package rstats visualization

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 17.9

rnpn

R client for interacting with the USA National Phenology Network data web services.

data national-phenology-network phenology r r-package rstats species web-api

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 17.8

r4ss

A fisheries stock assessment model written by Rick Methot.

fisheries fisheries-stock-assessment r rstats stock-synthesis

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 17.5

riem

Allows to get weather data from ASOS airports stations all around the globe.

airports asos iowa-environment-mesonet metar peer-reviewed r r-package rstats temperature weather weather-api

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 17.4

worrms

A R client for the World Register of Marine Species.

api-wrapper biological-data biology fish jerico-relevant marine-biology marine-species r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 17.2

eeExtra

A ninja Python package that unifies the Google Earth Engine ecosystem.

dataviz earth-engine geographic-information-systems gis google-earth-engine javascript landsat modis python python3 r remote-sensing rstats satellite-imagery sentinel

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 17.1

rfisheries

Interacting with fisheries databases at openfisheries.org.

fisheries open-data openfisheries r r-package rstats

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 16.7

Agridat

An extensive collection of datasets from agricultural experiments.

data rstats

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 16.6

rvertnet

An R Wrapper to the VertNet API, a collaborative project that makes biodiversity data free and available on the web.

api-wrapper biodiversity r r-package rstats specimen spocc vertnet

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 16.0

hydroscoper

An R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information.

climate greece hydrology hydrometeorology hydroscope meteorological-data meteorological-stations peer-reviewed r r-package rstats tidy-data time-series water-resources

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.8

iotables

Reproducible input-output economic analysis, economic and environmental impact assessment with empirical data.

r r-package rstats

Industrial Ecology - Input Output Model - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.7

getCRUCLdata

Provides functions that automate importing CRU CL v. 2.0 climatology data into R.

climate-data cru cru-cl2 data-access diurnal-temperature elevation frost peer-reviewed r r-package rainfall relative-humidity rstats solar-radiation temperature wind

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.6

taxizedb

Automatically converts supported taxonomic databases into SQLite for unified querying, with support for the National Center for Biotechnology Information Taxonomy, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, World Flora Online, the Catalogue of Life, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Wikidata.

itis r r-package rstats taxize taxonomic-databases taxonomy

Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.6

wdpar

R Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas.

biodiversity conservation cran data database protected-areas r r-package rstats spatial

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.3

CoordinateCleaner

Automated flagging of common spatial and temporal errors in biological and palaeontological collection data, for the use in conservation, ecology and palaeontology.

r r-package rstats

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.2

giscoR

An R API package that helps to retrieve data from Eurostat Geographic Information System of the Commission.

api-wrapper cran cran-r eurostat eurostat-data ggplot2 gis gisco r r-package ropengov rstats spatial thematic-maps

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 15.2

prioritizr

Uses mixed integer linear programming techniques to provide a flexible interface for building and solving conservation planning problems.

biodiversity conservation conservation-planner optimization prioritization r rstats solver spatial

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 14.7

ecmwfr

Provides easy access to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts web API services and Copernicus Climate Data Store from within R, matching and expanding upon the ECMWF Python tools.

cds climate-data copernicus ecmwf-api ecmwf-services r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 14.1

ssdtools

An R package to fit and plot Species Sensitivity Distributions, cumulative probability distributions which are fitted to toxicity concentrations for different species.

ecotoxicology env rstats species-sensitivity-distribution

Biosphere - Species Distribution Modeling - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 14.1

MODIStsp

An R package for automatic download and preprocessing of MODIS Land Products Time-Series.

gdal modis modis-data modis-land-products peer-reviewed preprocessing r r-package remote-sensing rstats satellite-imagery time-series

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 14.0

MODISTools

Interface to the MODIS Land Products Subsets Web Services.

api r-package remote-sensing rstats satellite-data

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 13.7

climaemet

An interface to download the climatic data of the Spanish Meteorological Agency directly from R using their API and create scientific graphs.

aemet climate cran data forecast-api r r-package ropenspain rstats science spain weather-api

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 12.9

daymetr

Allows for easy downloads of Daymet climate data directly to your R workspace or your computer.

climate-data data-science daymet gridded-data netcdf ornl-daac r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 12.5

smapr

An R package for acquisition and processing of NASA (Soil Moisture Active-Passive) SMAP data.

acquisition extract-data nasa peer-reviewed r r-package raster rstats smap-data soil-mapping soil-moisture soil-moisture-sensor

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 12.2

Geocomputation with R

A book on geographic data analysis, visualization and modeling with R.

book course education gdal geo geocomputation geocompx geography geos geospatial geospatial-data mapping-tools maps postgis r raster rspatial rstats simple-features spatial

Sustainable Development - Education - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 12.0

camtrapdp

R package to read and manipulate Camera Trap Data Packages.

camtrap-dp oscibio r r-package rstats

Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 11.9

weatherOz

Aims to facilitate access and download weather and climate data for Australia from Australian data sources.

api-client australia climate data r rainfall rstats weather weather-api weather-forecast

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 11.8

nhdR

An R interface to the US National Hydrography Dataset.

cran geospatial national-hydrography-dataset nhd rstats water-quality water-resources

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 11.3

hockeystick

Make essential Climate Change datasets easily available to non-climate experts.

carbon carbon-dioxide-data carbon-emissions climate climate-change climate-data climate-science ggplot2 methane noaa r rstats sea-ice sea-levels temperature-data warming-stripes

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 11.3

taxize

Allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information.

api api-wrapper biodiversity biology darwincore data nomenclature r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 11.0

snotelr

R toolbox to facilitate easy SNOTEL data exploration and downloads through a convenient shiny based GUI.

climate-data data-retrieval precipitation-data r-package rstats snotel snow

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 11.0

rcites

An R package to access information from the Speciesplus database, a centralised portal to key information on species of global concern.

api-client cites database endangered-species r r-package rstats trade

Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 10.9

LAGOSNE

Interface to the LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial & temporal database.

cran ecology geoscience limnology rstats water-quality

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 10.8

BioTIMEr

Global database of assemblage time series for quantifying and understanding biodiversity change.

ecology geospatial r r-package rstats

Biosphere - Biodiversity Analysis and Metrics - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 10.7

EMODnetWFS

Allow interrogation of and access to EMODnet(European Marine Observation and Data Network) geographic vector data in R though the EMODnet Web Feature Services.

biology dataproducts emodnet marine-data rstats wfs

Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 10.4

rgbif

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API.

api biodiversity data gbif lifewatch oscibio r r-package rstats species spocc

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 9.6

Datasets APIs and open source projects related to Climate Change

A curated list of APIs, open data and ML/AI projects on climate change.

climate climate-analysis climate-change climate-data data data-science datascience hacktoberfest python r resources rstats

Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 8.9

NLMR

R package to simulate neutral landscape models.

landscape-ecology neutral-landscape-model peer-reviewed r r-package rstats spatial

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 7.2

rinat

R wrapper for iNaturalist APIs for accessing the observations.

inaturalist r r-package rstats spocc

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 6.9

rWBclimate

An R interface for the World Bank climate data used in the World Bank climate knowledge portal.

r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 6.4

HASP

Hydrologic AnalySis Package.

groundwater groundwater-level r r-package rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 6.2

greenR

An R package that enables the quantification, analysis, and visualization of urban greenness within city networks.

cities ggplot2 greenness-exposure leaflet open-source openstreetmap r rstats shiny-r visualization

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 5.7

CliFlo

Easily download and visualise climate data from New Zealand's National Climate Database.

climate-data climate-stations kml national-climate-database r r-package rstats weather windrose zealand

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 5.7

Long-term Trends in Groundwater Levels in B.C.

R scripts for an indicator on long-term trends in groundwater levels in British Columbia published on Environmental Reporting British Columbia.

data-science env r rstats soe

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 5.6

CPRG

GHG Inventory using Climate Pollution Reduction Grant framework and funding.

emissions emissions-inventory ghg-emissions quarto rstats

Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 5.5

bcgroundwater

An R package to facilitate analysis and visualization of groundwater data from the British Columbia groundwater observation well network.

data-science env r rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 5.3

rdefra

Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA.

air-pollution air-pollution-levels air-quality defra peer-reviewed r r-package rstats uk

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 4.9

ghg emissions indicator

R scripts for a greenhouse gases emissions indicator published on Environmental Reporting British Columbia.

data-science env r rstats

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 4.2

canwqdata

An R package to download open water quality data from Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data.

data-science env r r-package rlang rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 4.2

fellingdater

A suite of functions designed to assist dendrochronologists in inferring estimates for felling dates, derived from dated tree-ring series.

dendrochronology r r-package rstats sapwood tree-rings

Biosphere - Forest Modeling and Analysis - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 3.7

epicrop

Simulation modelling of crop diseases using a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed (SEIR) model in R.

agricultural-modeling agricultural-modelling agricultural-research botanical-epidemiology crop-protection disease epirice-model model modeling modelling r rice rice-diseases rstats seir seir-model

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: 1.4

rrricanes

An R library that extracts information from Atlantic and east Pacific hurricanes and tropical storms.

hurricane peer-reviewed r r-package rstats weather

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storms - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

weathercan

This package makes it easier to search for and download multiple months/years of historical weather data from the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) website.

environment-canada peer-reviewed r r-package rstats weather-data weather-downloader

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

chirps

A quasi-global high-resolution rainfall data set, which incorporates satellite imagery and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring.

chirps climatology precipitation-data rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

wqbc

An R package for water quality thresholds and index calculation for British Columbia.

data-science env r r-package rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

EGRET

An R package for the analysis of long-term changes in water quality and streamflow, including the water-quality method Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season.

r r-package rstats usgs water-quality water-quality-data

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

hddtools

An open source project designed to facilitate access to a variety of online open data sources relevant for hydrologists and, in general, environmental scientists and practitioners.

data60uk grdc hydrology kgclimateclass mopex peer-reviewed precipitation r r-package rstats sepa

Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

galah

An R interface to biodiversity data hosted by the living atlases; a set of organisations that share a common codebase, and act as nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

biodiversity biology ecology r rstats

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

phenor

The framework leverages measurements of vegetation phenology from four common phenology observation datasets combined with global retrospective and projected climate data.

model-calibration phenocam phenology-models r-package rstats vegetation-phenology

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

rnoaa

An R interface to many National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data sources.

climate noaa noaa-data r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

nasapower

Aims to make it quick and easy to automate downloading NASA-POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data in your R session as a tidy data frame tibble object for analysis and use in modeling or other purposes.

agroclimatology agroclimatology-data data-access earth-science nasa nasa-power r r-package rstats weather weather-data weather-variables

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

BIRDS

This set of tools has been developed for systematizing biodiversity data review in order to evaluate whether a set of species observation are fit-for-use and help take decisions upon its use on further analysis.

biodiversity-data biodiversity-informatics data-gaps gbif reported-species rstats sampling-effort species-observed

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

qualR

Download of air pollutants and meteorological information from CETESB QUALAR System for São Paulo, and MonitorAr Program, for Rio de Janeiro.

air-pollutants air-quality-data air-quality-measurements brazil cetesb r r-package rio-de-janeiro rstats sao-paulo weather-data

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

climateR

An R package for getting point and gridded climate data by AOI.

aoi climate dataset geospatial gridded-climate-data rstats weather

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

etn

Provides functionality to access data from the European Tracking Network (ETN) database hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.

animal-movement animal-tracking biologging data-access fish lifewatch oscibio r r-package rstats

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity

GSODR

Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data Client for R.

daily-data daily-weather data-access global-data gsod historical-data historical-weather ncdc ncei r r-package rstats weather weather-data weather-information weather-stations

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 Apr 2026 - Ranking: -Infinity