This patch provides better handling of queries that return empty record sets.
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.
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.
This release includes the following changes:
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(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.
This is the first submission of this package to CRAN.