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GSODR vs teal.modules.hermes
A side-by-side editorial comparison of GSODR and teal.modules.hermes — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
GSODR vs teal.modules.hermes: at a glance
What is GSODR?
A weather-station data client that broke one return type to hand back distances instead of bare IDs.
GSODR fetches and tidies NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day weather data for R. The 4.0.0 release made nearest_stations() return a data.table of full station metadata plus distance in kilometres rather than a character vector of station IDs, with a documented one-liner for anyone who only wanted the IDs. Nothing has shipped since March 2024.
What is teal.modules.hermes?
teal.modules.hermes stopped publishing release notes before it stopped releasing.
All three recent tags are automation output: a bump from 0.1.3.9017 to 0.1.4, a pre-release merge whose body is a list of file-path updates and co-author trailers, and an empty commit. The most recent is from October 2022.
GSODR vs teal.modules.hermes: editorial side-by-side
GSODR
0.0ANALYTICS
A weather-station data client that broke one return type to hand back distances instead of bare IDs.
◆ Current state
GSODR fetches and tidies NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day weather data for R. The 4.0.0 release made nearest_stations() return a data.table of full station metadata plus distance in kilometres rather than a character vector of station IDs, with a documented one-liner for anyone who only wanted the IDs. Nothing has shipped since March 2024.
◆ Where it's heading
The package is mature and its releases read as upkeep: refreshing the internal ISD history database, dropping dependencies in favour of base and curl, and hardening the download path against station-year combinations that do not exist. The 4.0.0 change fits the same pattern of returning more structure by default rather than making callers query twice.
◆ Prediction
The most likely next release is another internal station-history refresh; there is no signal of new data sources or analysis features in these entries.
teal.modules.hermes
0.0ANALYTICS
teal.modules.hermes stopped publishing release notes before it stopped releasing.
◆ Current state
All three recent tags are automation output: a bump from 0.1.3.9017 to 0.1.4, a pre-release merge whose body is a list of file-path updates and co-author trailers, and an empty commit. The most recent is from October 2022.
◆ Where it's heading
The tags share the insightsengineering date-stamp and [skip vbump] convention, so the feed reports pipeline events rather than package changes — the one package-relevant line across all three is scda moving to Suggests. Nothing here indicates ongoing development.
◆ Prediction
There is nothing in these entries to project from; the package's actual state would have to be read from its NEWS file or commit history.
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Recent activity from GSODR and teal.modules.hermes
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 2y agoGSODRnearest_stations() returns metadata and distances
- 2y agoGSODRStation history refresh and internal tidying
- 2y agoGSODRBad station-year requests warn instead of failing the batch
- 3y agoteal.modules.hermes2022_10_13
- 3y agoteal.modules.hermes2022_08_16: [skip vbump] Merge pre-release to main (#276)
- 4y agoteal.modules.hermes2022_06_09: [skip vbump] (#256)
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between GSODR and teal.modules.hermes?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. GSODR and teal.modules.hermes 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.
Is GSODR better than teal.modules.hermes?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. GSODR and teal.modules.hermes 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.
What are the best alternatives to GSODR?
Top GSODR alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "GSODR alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/gsodr for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to teal.modules.hermes?
Top teal.modules.hermes alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "teal.modules.hermes alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/teal-modules-hermes for the full list with editorial commentary on each.