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The Manhattan-plot package for GWAS results, finished and dormant since 2017.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of climaemet and tern.rbmi — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
climaemet added weather alerts and wildfire risk, then spent two years managing rate limits.
climaemet wraps Spain's AEMET meteorological API — station data, historical climate series, forecasts, and the plotting helpers that go with them. Its capability surface widened decisively in 1.4.0 with meteorological alerts and wildfire risk rasters. Everything since has been about surviving the API rather than extending it: multiple API keys, quota-aware key selection, and httr2 throttling pinned to AEMET's stated 40-connections-per-minute policy.
Reference-based multiple imputation tables, shipping only what CRAN checks demand.
tern.rbmi renders the output of {rbmi} reference-based multiple imputation analyses into tern tables for clinical reporting. Its three most recent releases exist to satisfy CRAN: restricting vignette builds to gcc, adding V8 to Suggests, and a plain resubmission. No user-facing functionality has changed in the visible window, and the three older entries now backfilled are version-bump automation.
climaemet wraps Spain's AEMET meteorological API — station data, historical climate series, forecasts, and the plotting helpers that go with them. Its capability surface widened decisively in 1.4.0 with meteorological alerts and wildfire risk rasters. Everything since has been about surviving the API rather than extending it: multiple API keys, quota-aware key selection, and httr2 throttling pinned to AEMET's stated 40-connections-per-minute policy.
Two forces shape this package, and neither is feature demand. The first is AEMET's own churn — new response codes, a fires endpoint that switched to six risk levels returned as named factors, municipality datasets refreshed annually. The second is the maintainer's cross-package modernization, visible here as the API key store moving to tools::R_user_dir() with automatic migration, a configurable timeout, cli messaging, and an R 4.1 floor. The 1.6.0 refactor is stated as AI-assisted, matching the maintainer's other packages.
Expect the next release to track another AEMET endpoint change rather than add a data domain; the throttling and multi-key machinery suggests quota pressure is the constraint the maintainer keeps returning to.
tern.rbmi renders the output of {rbmi} reference-based multiple imputation analyses into tern tables for clinical reporting. Its three most recent releases exist to satisfy CRAN: restricting vignette builds to gcc, adding V8 to Suggests, and a plain resubmission. No user-facing functionality has changed in the visible window, and the three older entries now backfilled are version-bump automation.
This is a thin adapter package and behaves like one — it moves when CRAN or an upstream dependency forces it to. Between 2022 and 2024 the feed shows only version bumps, and the 2025 releases are packaging concerns rather than analysis changes. The newly surfaced 2022 entries reinforce rather than change that reading.
Expect the next release to be triggered by a CRAN check failure or an {rbmi} update rather than by new tabulation features.
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either climaemet or tern.rbmi.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. climaemet and tern.rbmi are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. climaemet and tern.rbmi are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
Top climaemet alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "climaemet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/climaemet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top tern.rbmi alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "tern.rbmi alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tern-rbmi for the full list with editorial commentary on each.