Major changes

• Breaking change nearest_stations() now returns a data.table of all station metadata and a value with the distance in kilometres from the user-provided coordinates. This function previous returned a single character vector. To replicate the previous functionality, you can use the following method by calling the STNID column name.

nearest_stations(LAT = 14.16742, LON = 121.255669, distance = 50)$STNID

Minor changes

• Update internal isd history database.

Minor changes

• Use {roxyglobals} for handling global values.

• Update internal isd history database.

• Tidy up Appendix 2 in vignette, map of GSOD station locations. Add a caption and remove text from .png image itself.

Bug fixes

• Fix codecov badge in README

Bug fixes

• Fix duplicated elevation columns.

Minor changes

• Remove {httr} as an Import. Use base functionality to check existence first and then {curl} will properly error if a download fails, we will use that functionality.

• Fix codecov badge to point at proper branch.

• Ensure function titles are all proper title case.

• Enhanced handling of data requests for incompatible station-year combinations. A warning() is issued for each bad combo, but if a vector() of stations is requested, any valid stations will still be downloaded with the bad combos omitted after the warning is emitted.

• Fix bug where the isd_history.Rda data object was not updated using the data_raw/fetch_isd-history.Rmd.
• Fix bug where stations were not available in the internal isd_history file, this caused NA values to appear for some stations when run using format_GSOD() or to not be available for download with get_GSOD(). This adds 1,334 new stations that are now available through GSODR. These were always available through GSOD but this bug prevented them from being accessed through this package.
• Fix minor bug where get_inventory() returned garbage in the header of the object.

• Redoc package to correct HTML issues.

• Update internal isd-history database.

• Update changed URLs.

GSODR 3.1.5

Minor changes

• Update internal isd-history database.

• Use return(invisible(NULL)) for functions that check user inputs without any returns.

• Replace class(years) == "character") with inherits(years, what = "character") in an internal function, .validate_years().

• Updates invalid URLs.

Minor changes

• Skip ANY and ALL tests on CRAN. This fixes the "problems" with GSODR failing on a Solaris instance when the server failed to respond.

• Update internal isd-history database.

• Use \CRANpkg{} in place of \pkg{} in documentation.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ropensci/GSODR/compare/v3.1.2...v3.1.4

GSODR 3.1.2

Bug fixes

• Fix (more) bugs related to NA value replacements.

Minor changes and improvements

• Simplify NA value replacement in "PRCP" column.

• The PRCP column values are rounded to two decimal places as in original GSOD data, not one.

• The TEMP_ATTRIBUTES, DEWP_ATTRIBUTES, SLP_ATTRIBUTES, STP_ATTRIBUTES, VISIB_ATTRIBUTES and WDSP_ATTRIBUTES columns are formatted as an integer not character.

• Better tests for the generated weather data data.table output checking values and formats.

• Tests are updated for updated data availability in the GSOD data due to continuous improvements to the data set.

• Standardise handling of author/contributor comments. None have a full stop now in the comment.

• Use on.exit() to reset the working directory to the original user-space value after changing the working directory to untar files located in tempdir().

GSODR 3.1.1

Bug fixes

• Fixes bug reported in #84 in the FRSHTT columns where the values were all reported as NA even if there were observed values.

• Fixes bug where NA values reported as 99.99, 999.9 or 9999.9 were not replaced with NA.

Minor changes

• Examples are no longer wrapped in \donttest{} but use @examplesIf interactive() instead.

New features

• Include columns for COUNTRY_NAME (country name in English), ISO2C and ISO3C in the final output from get_GSOD() and reformat_GSOD().

• Diffs in the isd_history are now recorded in the /data-raw/fetch_isd-history.md file and shipped with GSODR as isd_history.rda, which can be viewed by using load(system.file("extdata", "isd_diff.rda", package = "GSODR")).

• Update and improve documentation to reflect country name and ISO code columns.

Minor improvements

• Update NCEI data usage statement.