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CLPFUDatabase

Statement of need

Historically, societal exergy analysis (SEA) practitioners have analyzed the energy conversion chains (ECCs) of individual countries using linked spreadsheets, often starting with primary- and final-stage data from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) extended world energy balances (EWEBs) (Ayres, Ayres, and Warr 2003; Serrenho et al. 2014; Brockway et al. 2014, 2015). Data were stored in varying and inconsistent formats. An early SEA database (De Stercke 2014) estimated energy efficiencies of end-use machines using the economic status of countries, thereby precluding use in energy-economy studies.

Researchers in the field wanted to expand SEA to cover all countries, but the spreadsheet approach to SEA was deemed not scalable. A new approach to SEA was needed, one that scaled across all countries for many years without relying on economic data to estimate machine efficiencies.

To address that need, we created a suite of R packages to support the creation and use of the CL-PFU database. But creating the CL-PFU database involves several R packages and much input data. A way to streamline the installation of packages was needed, such that a single install.packages() call would ensure that all dependencies are available.

This package (CLPFUDatabase) addresses the need for a simple way to install all dependencies. CLPFUDatabase is metapackage1, whose dependencies include all packages required to make the CL-PFU database. Installation of CLPFUDatabase triggers installation of all dependencies for the CL-PFU database.

Installation

You can install CLPFUDatabase and all its dependencies from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("EnergyEconomyDecoupling/CLPFUDatabase")

Dependencies

The packages in the table below are dependencies of CLPFUDatabase.

Package name Host Organization
FAOSTAT CRAN NA
future.callr CRAN NA
Rilostat CRAN NA
RCLabels CRAN NA
matsbyname CRAN NA
matsindf CRAN NA
MKHthemes GitHub MatthewHeun
MWTools GitHub EnergyEconomyDecoupling
IEATools GitHub MatthewHeun
Recca GitHub MatthewHeun
PFUSetup GitHub EnergyEconomyDecoupling
PFUPipelineTools GitHub EnergyEconomyDecoupling
PFUPipeline GitHub EnergyEconomyDecoupling
PFUAggPipeline GitHub EnergyEconomyDecoupling

Packages hosted on CRAN can be updated in the “Packages” tab of RStudio. Users will need to update occasionally packages hosted elsewhere by using the commands below.

devtools::install_github(MatthewHeun/MKHthemes)

devtools::install_github(EnergyEconomyDecoupling/MWTools)

devtools::install_github(MatthewHeun/IEATools)

devtools::install_github(MatthewHeun/Recca)

devtools::install_github(EnergyEconomyDecoupling/PFUSetup)

devtools::install_github(EnergyEconomyDecoupling/PFUPipelineTools)

devtools::install_github(EnergyEconomyDecoupling/PFUPipeline)

devtools::install_github(EnergyEconomyDecoupling/PFUAggPipeline)

References

Ayres, Robert U., Leslie W. Ayres, and Benjamin Warr. 2003. “Exergy, Power, and Work in the US Economy, 1900–1998.” Energy 28 (3): 219–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0360-5442(02)00089-0.
Brockway, Paul E., John R. Barrett, Timothy J. Foxon, and Julia K. Steinberger. 2014. “Divergence of Trends in US and UK Aggregate Exergy Efficiencies 1960–2010.” Environmental Science & Technology 48: 9874–81. https://doi.org/10.1021/es501217t.
Brockway, Paul E., Julia K. Steinberger, John R. Barrett, and Timothy J. Foxon. 2015. “Understanding China’s Past and Future Energy Demand: An Exergy Efficiency and Decomposition Analysis.” Applied Energy 155: 892–903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.05.082.
De Stercke, Simon. 2014. “Dynamics of Energy Systems: A Useful Perspective.” Interim Report IR-14-013. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA.
Serrenho, André Cabrera, Tânia Sousa, Benjamin Warr, Robert U. Ayres, and Tiago Domingos. 2014. “Decomposition of Useful Work Intensity: The EU (European Union)-15 Countries from 1960 to 2009.” Energy 76 (November): 704–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.08.068.