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Detailed Information

Software name

srppp

Localised name

srppp

Organisation

Agroscope

Short description

srppp is an R package designed to read XML dumps of the Swiss Register of Plant Protection Products

Long description

Functions to generate data objects from XML versions of the Swiss Register of Plant Protection Products (SRPPP). An online version of the register can be accessed at https://www.psm.admin.ch/de/produkte. There is no guarantee of correspondence of the data read in using this package with that online version, or with the original registration documents. Also, the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, coordinating the authorisation of plant protection products in Switzerland, does not answer requests regarding this package.

Features

  • Read in the Swiss Register of Plant Protection Products and their uses to make the data accessible in R
  • Provide tables of products, ingredients, uses and obligations that are linked via foreign keys
  • Calculate use rates in grams of active substance per hectare
  • Find alternative products for all products containing certain active substances
  • Explains the relationship between registered products (W-Numbers) and unique products (P-Numbers)

Development status

stable

Software type

addon

Software version

2.0.2

Release date

11.02.2026

Platforms

windows, mac, linux, ios

Categories

data-analytics

Used by

  • Federal Office of Agriculture (FOAG)
  • Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN)
  • Agroscope

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Maintenance

Maintenance type:
internal
Contacts:
  • Johannes Ranke Email (Affiliation: Agroscope)

Localisation

Localisation ready:
No
Available languages:
en

Publiccode.yml Version

0.5.0