ropensci/nasapower: Surrey Hills

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 as well as the following from 1.0.0

• 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

• 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.