--- title: "Introduction to pRecipe" author: "Mijael Rodrigo Vargas Godoy, Yannis Markonis" date: "`r Sys.Date()`" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette: toc: true toc_depth: 4 vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Introduction to pRecipe} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} editor_options: chunk_output_type: console bibliography: pRecipe.bib link-citations: true --- *** ```{r start, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( echo = TRUE, eval = TRUE, fig.width = 7, warning = FALSE, message = FALSE ) library(pRecipe) library(kableExtra) ``` `pRecipe` was conceived back in 2020 as part of MRVG's doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czechia. Designed with reproducible science in mind, **`pRecipe` facilitates the download, exploration, visualization, and analysis** of multiple precipitation data products across various spatiotemporal scales [@vargas_godoy_precipe_2023].
~_The Global Water Cycle Budget_ | @vargas_godoy_global_2021 _"Like civilization and technology, our understanding of the global water cycle has been continuously evolving, and we have adapted our quantification methods to better exploit new technological resources. The accurate quantification of global water fluxes and storage is crucial in studying the global water cycle."_ *** # Before We Start Like many other R packages, `pRecipe` has some system requirements: * [PROJ](https://proj.org/download.html) * Geospatial Data Abstraction Library [(GDAL)](https://gdal.org/en/latest/download.html) * Network Common Data Form [(NetCDF)](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/) # Data `pRecipe` database hosts 27 different precipitation datasets; six gauge-based, eight satellite-based, eight reanalysis, and five hydrological model precipitation products. Their specifications as available in the database, as well as links to their providers, and their respective references are detailed in the following subsections. We have already homogenized, compacted to a single file, and stored them in [Zenodo repositories](https://zenodo.org/) under the following naming convention: `-_______