nasapower

Spec sheet

Purpose

nasapower automates downloading NASA POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data in an R session.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Intended users

The package is intended for analysis, modelling and other uses of NASA POWER data within R.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Support

The documentation directs users to report issues or bugs and provides a contributing guide.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

License

The package is released under the MIT license.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

API documentation

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Automated test runs

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Communities

The package accesses the Agroclimatology, Sustainable Buildings and Renewable Energy archives.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Data availability

The documentation says POWER data are freely available for download, with spatial and temporal resolutions varying by parameter and community.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Data provider

nasapower is an API client and does not provide or redistribute NASA POWER data.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Global requests

Global coverage is available for climatology requests by specifying “global” with the climatology temporal API.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

GraphQL support

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

gRPC support

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Installation

The stable package is available through CRAN and a development version is available through R-Universe.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Output

The package returns POWER data as a tidy data frame or tibble with a metadata header.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Parameter lookup

The package can query the POWER API for details about available parameters and their definitions by community and temporal API.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Point and regional requests

Requests can target a single coordinate or a region, with regional processing limited to a maximum area of 4.5 × 4.5 degrees (100 points).Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Rate limits

POWER API endpoints limit requests to prevent overload, and limits can differ by temporal API and change over time.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Team workspaces

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Temporal data

The get_power function supports hourly, daily, monthly and climatology requests.Read 8 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

WebSocket support

NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• API clients#34 of 387.5