nasapower 1.0.1

Minor changes

  • Provides corrections to documentation formatting as per CRAN volunteers’ requests

  • Provides edits and clarifications in DESCRIPTION’s Description and Title about the package’s uses and capabilities


nasapower 1.0.0 (unreleased)

Major changes

  • nasapower is now a part of rOpenSci after peer-review of the code!

  • Provides access to all three communities, AG, SSE and and SB, not just AG

  • Uses new ‘POWER’ ‘API’ to download new 1/2 x 1/2 degree data

  • Adds function get_power() to get weather data and optionally metadata as well

  • Adds function create_met() to create ‘APSIM’ met objects from ‘POWER’ data

  • Adsd function create_icasa() to create a text file of weather data for use in ‘DSSAT’ crop modelling

  • Internally, replaces httr package with crul

Deprecated functions

  • The get_cell and get_region functions are deprecated in favour of get_power(). The new POWER interface allows for the specification of single points or regional areas. Global coverage may be queryed for Climatology. See the help for ?get_power() for more details.

nasapower 0.1.4

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes bug related to date columns where MONTH, DAY and YYYY-MM-DD were incorrectly reported in final data frame. This did not affect the weather data, YEAR or DOY columns.

nasapower 0.1.3

Bug fixes

  • Fix bug where lon/lat values were improperly assigned internally due to row names not being ordered correctly in get_region()

  • Fix bug reports link in DESCRIPTION file

  • Correct vignette where it had said, “both of which will which will download”

  • Correct documentation for get_region(), which incorrectly stated that it downloaded data for a 1 x 1 degree cell

Minor improvements

  • Optimise arguments used in utils::read.table() to ingest weather data in the get_cell() and get_region() functions more quickly

  • NEWS now formatted more nicely for easier reading

  • Add statement about possible performance and memory usage when using get_region() in the vignette

  • Add an example of converting the data frame to a spatial object using raster to create a raster::brick()

  • Specify in documentation that a range of days to years can be specified for download

Minor changes

  • get_region() and get_cell() now default to download all weather vars

  • Add a check to see if POWER website is responding before making request for data. If not, stop and return error message to user.


nasapower 0.1.2

Bug fixes

Minor improvements

  • Enhanced documentation

  • Superflous function, .onLoad(), removed from zzz.R

  • Tidied up startup message

  • Clean up vignette

  • Build vignette faster

  • Remove DATE from DESCRIPTION


nasapower 0.1.1

Minor improvements

  • Fix issues in documentation, typos, incorrect links, etc.

nasapower 0.1.0

New features

Minor improvements

  • Better documentation

nasapower 0.0.2

New features

  • Added citation file

nasapower 0.0.1

  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

  • First release, no changes to report yet