Using R in hydrology: a review of recent developments and future directions

Slater, Louise J.; Thirel, Guillaume; Harrigan, Shaun; Delaigue, Olivier; Hurley, Alexander; Khouakhi, Abdou; Prosdocimi, Ilaria; Vitolo, Claudia; Smith, Katie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2939-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2939-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-2939-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 7

Review article

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12 Jul 2019

Review article |

| 12 Jul 2019

Using R in hydrology: a review of recent developments and future directions

Louise J. Slater, Guillaume Thirel, Shaun Harrigan, Olivier Delaigue, Alexander Hurley, Abdou Khouakhi, Ilaria Prosdocimi, Claudia Vitolo, and Katie Smith

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RC1: 'Review of Using R in hydrology: a review of recent developments and future directions', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Louise Slater, 18 Mar 2019
RC2: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Louise Slater, 18 Mar 2019
RC3: 'Review 3', Michael Stoelzle, 02 Apr 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 3 (Michael Stoelzle)', Louise Slater, 13 Apr 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (24 Apr 2019) by Erwin Zehe

AR by Louise Slater on behalf of the Authors (04 Jun 2019)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Jun 2019) by Erwin Zehe

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (07 Jun 2019)

ED: Publish as is (14 Jun 2019) by Erwin Zehe

AR by Louise Slater on behalf of the Authors (23 Jun 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper explores the benefits and advantages of R's usage in hydrology. We provide an overview of a typical hydrological workflow based on reproducible principles and packages for retrieval of hydro-meteorological data, spatial analysis, hydrological modelling, statistics, and the design of static and dynamic visualizations and documents. We discuss some of the challenges that arise when using R in hydrology as well as a roadmap for R’s future within the discipline.