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.
You can install CLPFUDatabase and all its dependencies from
GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("EnergyEconomyDecoupling/CLPFUDatabase")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)
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.