Removal of Hydrosanity from CRAN - Do you have windows binary version of latest release

[Mark Thyer]

Dear Felix,

It appears hydrosanity package has been removed from CRAN. I assume this is because you are no longer supporting it. 

This is a real shame, because it is an excellent package with many nice features.

Is it possible to provide the windows binary of the latest release of hydrosanity for users who would still like to use it?

Mark

[Felix Andrews]

Hi Mark,

Yes, sadly I do not have time to support Hydrosanity. If I had time to
spend on it, I would focus on building everything upon the functions
in the "zoo" package.

I've put the latest windows binary package and source package up on
googlecode, and updated the installation instructions:
http://hydrosanity.googlecode.com/

All the best
-Felix

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[Mark Thyer]

Felix,

Thanks for letting me know, and for putting up the latest version.

Just another quick query, if appropriate funding was available, would you at all be interested in undertaking an "upgrade" and/or further development of hydrosanity?

Its features are really useful for research projects that I work on (influence of data errors on hydrological models) see. Thyer et al (2009) - we need to know all the errors in the rainfall/runoff data.

If you are not interested in ongoing development, another option is to undertake some training for someone like me. Although my background is in Fortran. my skills are reasonable in R - I co-wrote RFortran (www.rfortran.org). I would be interested to understand how hydrosanity works and contribute to its development. I would also be interested in understanding how the RATTL GUI works.

Although there is no funding immediately available I wanted to ask if you would be interested, if something did come up.

Cheers,
Mark

Thyer, M., B. Renard, D. Kavetski, G. Kuczera, S. W. Franks, and S. Srikanthan (2009), Critical evaluation of parameter consistency and predictive uncertainty in hydrological modeling: A case study using Bayesian total error analysis, Water Resour. Res., 45, W00B14.

[Felix Andrews]

Hi Mark,

I'm no longer in academia, and as I'm employed full-time elsewhere it
would be hard to fit in any serious development work.

I am happy to advise where I can on time series handling in R. I am
not really convinced that a GUI is necessary, particularly in a
research context.

The hydrosanity and rattle GUIs are built using GTK+; the tool used to
build it used to be called Glade but apparently now it is called
GtkBuilder. There are tutorials online (I guess)... It is fairly
straightforward: you just enter the name of a callback function which
will be called whenever a GUI element is activated. Then it is just a
couple of lines of code using the RGtk2 package to run it. Before
jumping in to that though, you should consider alternatives including
(1) the Qt GUI libraries and (2) a web interface.

All the best
-Felix