cowfootR: Dairy Farm Carbon Footprint Assessment

Calculates the carbon footprint of dairy farms based on methodologies of the International Dairy Federation and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Includes tools for single-farm and batch analysis, report generation, and visualization. Methods follow International Dairy Federation (2022) "The IDF global Carbon Footprint standard for the dairy sector" (Bulletin of the IDF n° 520/2022) <doi:10.56169/FKRK7166> and IPCC (2019) "2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Chapter 10: Emissions from Livestock and Manure Management" <https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2019rf/pdf/4_Volume4/19R_V4_Ch10_Livestock.pdf> guidelines.

Version: 0.1.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: writexl
Suggests: testthat, knitr, readxl, rmarkdown, plotly, gt, dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, withr
Published: 2025-09-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.cowfootR
Author: Juan Moreno [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Juan Moreno <juanmarcosmoreno at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/juanmarcosmoreno-arch/cowfootR/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/juanmarcosmoreno-arch/cowfootR, https://juanmarcosmoreno-arch.github.io/cowfootR/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: cowfootR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: cowfootR.html , cowfootR.pdf
Vignettes: Complete_Parameter_Reference_Guide (source, R code)
IPCC_Methodology_Tiers_cowfootR (source, R code)
Introduction_to_Dairy_LCA_cowfootR (source, R code)
Single_Farm_Analysis_cowfootR (source, R code)
cowfootR Workflow (source)

Downloads:

Package source: cowfootR_0.1.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: cowfootR_0.1.2.zip, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): cowfootR_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): cowfootR_0.1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): cowfootR_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): cowfootR_0.1.2.tgz

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