cimir 0.4-1 (2021-02-17)

This patch provides better handling of queries that return empty record sets.

cimir 0.4-0 (2020-01-22)

This release includes the following changes:

• References to defunct functions were removed.
• Minor changes to internals to meet new requirements in latest versions of tidyr and rlang packages.
• Fixed bug in function cimis_to_datetime() regarding timezone specification.
• Fixed bug in function cimis_split_query() where sub-queries sometimes exceeded the specified length.
• New function cimis_flags() provides information on CIMIS Quality Control flags.
• Added a new vignette describing helper functions.
• Error is returned if an empty or NULL API key is passed to set_key().
• Informative error message is returned when the CIMIS API itself rejects a request.

cimir 0.3-0 (2019-06-10)

This release includes the following changes:

• (Breaking change) Deprecated functions are now defunct.
• Package import “Rcurl” replaced with “curl” (>= 3.3).
• Data items not listed in the CIMIS Web API documentation were identified and added to output of cimis_items().
• Function cimis_to_datetime() now explicitly uses Etc/GMT+8 timezone to ensure match with standard timezone used by CIMIS (PST).
• New helper function cimis_split_query() splits a long-duration query into multiple smaller-duration queries.
• New helper function cimis_compass_to_degrees() returns the middle azimuths of a vector of compass direction labels.
• New helper function cimis_format_location() formats station latitudes and longitudes as either decimal degrees (numeric) or Hours Minutes Seconds.
• Text encoding of Web API results are set to “UTF-8”, fixing potential formatting issues.
• HTTP errors now include the message text provided by CIMIS to describe the issue.

cimir 0.2-0 (2019-03-14)

This release includes the following changes:

• (Warning) Function names have been updated to follow best (or at least better) practices for avoiding naming conflicts and improving clarity. Old function names have been deprecated.
• HTTPS is now used to access the CIMIS web API.
• The URL formatting has bee updated to reflect a change in how the CIMIS web API formats the prioritizeSCS argument.
• The quickstart vignette has been updated to use the new function names.

cimir 0.1-0 (2019-01-04)

This is the first submission of this package to CRAN.