January 20, 2020 Software Open Access

ropensci/bomrang: Cobargo

Adam H. Sparks; HughParsonage; Paul Melloy; Jonathan Carroll; Dean Marchiori; deanmarchiori-irx; mark padgham; Keith-Pembleton; James Goldie; graceli8; Arfon Smith

bomrang 0.7.0 Bug fixes

• Resolves an issue where select() was not recognised as being re-exported by bomrang from dplyr

• Fixes bug where precipitation to 9am, column r, in ag bulletin was not reported at 0.01 for "Tce" as documented in vignette

• Fixes bug where weather bulletin contained empty cells rather than a proper NA value where data was missing

• Adds skip_on_cran() to all tests causing failures in CRAN checks that should not have been tested on CRAN

• Corrects (and skips) a test that failed on Solaris and macOS when writing to disk by using tempdir() rather than the userspace

• Requires R >= 3.5.0 now due to changes in serialisation of internal .Rds files used to store databases of station information

• Adds three new functions to parse local XML files, not relying on R's ability to fetch files from an insecure FTP server, thanks to @paulmelloy for this

  • parse_ag_bulletin()

  • parse_coastal_forecast()

  • parse_precis_forecast()

• Improved test coverage, ~93 %

  • Adds tests for previously untested get_weather_bulletin()

  • Adds tests for bomrang_tbl() functionality

• Fail gracefully with message and returns invisble(NULL) if a resource is not available for XML or JSON files, not erroring. In cases where a file is not found, error 404 or on the FTP server, an error message is still returned

• Comprehensive cleaning of the vignette and reformatting of help files for all functions

• Precompile use_case vignette as well as main vignette

• Improved matching of possible character strings entered by user for state to include variations of two-letter abbreviations of Australia