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
andrlang
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:
- (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.