Productive coding sprint in Amsterdam
At last week’s coding sprint, we developed new functionality to process and explore data from both small-scale bird radars and weather radars.
As part of the HiRAD project, last week 11 people collectively took part in a coding sprint. In Amsterdam and online, we worked for three days on software for aeroecology.
birdscanR
For the birdscanR R package, a website and readme were created, and continuous testing was implemented. Furthermore, a function to construct a vertical profile time series was implemented, and numerous other improvements were made.
getRad
In the getRad R package, functionality to download polar volume data was extended to the United States. Seven countries are now supported. Vertical profile time series data can be loaded directly from the Aloft bucket and the RMI. In addition, the behaviour of the get_pvol() and get_vpts() functions is synchronized, and documentation was improved. These updates will be released to CRAN soon.
Other
Smaller updates were made to the bioRad and birdR R packages, and the NAAVRE environment was explored to create a pipeline for processing radar data. The sprint allowed us to communicate directly, so many questions and discussions could be resolved efficiently.