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weatherOz 2.0.2

CRAN Re-submission - Maintenance release addressing archival issues

Bug fixes

  • Made station count tests more flexible to accommodate natural changes in weather station networks over time, using ranges instead of exact counts.

  • Fixed compatibility with crul 1.6.0 by updating minimum vcr requirement to 2.0.0, resolving VCR cassette testing issues caused by deprecated mock() function.

  • URL updates following DPIRD IT system migration:

    • API endpoints: Maintained on api.agric.wa.gov.au
    • Updated DPIRD API documentation URLs: agric.wa.gov.au/apis/api-terms-and-conditions to dpird.wa.gov.au/online-tools/apis/api-terms-and-conditions/ and agric.wa.gov.au/form/dpird-api-registration to dpird.wa.gov.au/forms/dpird-api-registration/
    • Updated organisational URL: pulseaus.com.au/about/australian-pulse-industry to grainsaustralia.com.au
    • Updated all references in vignettes, README files, and function documentation

Additional fixes and improvements:

  • Addressed CRAN URL check issues by updating all redirected links to their new working locations.

  • Updated all man pages with corrected URLs; Fixed all broken links in README and vignettes.

  • Added @importFrom curl directives for all curl functions used in the package to resolve import warnings.

  • Flexible station count testing: Made tests more resilient by using ranges instead of exact station counts.

    • Accommodates natural changes in weather station networks over time
    • Prevents test failures due to minor station count variations

weatherOz 2.0.1

CRAN release: 2025-04-16

Minor changes

  • Updated testthat tests to reflect changes in weather station and BOM Radar imagery availability

Bug fixes

  • get_stations_metadata() fails to fetch data with invalid API key but provided unhelpful error.

  • Added check to query_dpird_api() when using an invalid DPIRD API key (Issue 94).

Breaking changes

Bug fixes

  • Fixes Issue 90 with the get_dpird_summaries() function where tests had fixed dates and errors were generated. The tests test-get_dpird_summaries.R have been updated to use previous year from the current date and the tests now pass.

  • Fixes other bugs with the find_stations_in() and function where the function would not return the correct number of stations, given recent adjustments to the weather station infrastructure.

Additional fixes and improvements:

  • Re-documented package to reflect changes

  • Updated test vcr cassette/fixtures

  • Updated BOM-related vignette

  • Updated WORDLIST for spelling checks

weatherOz 1.0.0.9000

Bug Fixes

  • Provides useful feedback when users provide a NULL API key value.

  • Fixes Issue 82 where Average wind speed data extracted using get_dpird_summaries() is ranked from lowest to highest and does not match the observation recorded at that time from DPIRD summaries, thanks to @alycest.

  • Fixes Issue 83 where average wind direction data extracted using get_dpird_summaries() do not match the observation average wind direction recorded at that time in DPIRD summaries, thanks to @alycest.

  • Fixes an error in documentation about the number of types of objects accepted by find_stations_in().

  • Fixes a typo in the README that provided incorrect arguments for get_key(), thanks to @johnbaums.

weatherOz 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2024-07-26

Major Changes

  • Addressed comments after initial CRAN submission (reduce file size and update links to packages/function in the documentation).

  • Published manuscript describing package in the Journal of Open Source Software

  • Package was peer reviewed.

  • Changes the name of the function get_station_metadata() to get_stations_metadata() to avoid clashes with {stationaRy}.

  • Adds new functionality, find_stations_in() to assist in finding stations in a bounding box or geospatial polygon.

  • Allows user to pass along a factor as the station_code when requesting weather data. This allows for the use of the metadata returned from get_stations_metadata() to be used directly in queries without changing the class of the station_code column from factor to character.

  • Added functionality to get_station_metadata() so that it returns the metadata for only one station if required, commit.

  • Several enhanced checks for user inputs to ensure that valid requests are made before sending the API queries are now in place.

Bug Fixes

  • find_nearby_stations()

    • Fixes bug where find_forecast_towns() returned all values, not the proper values.

    • Fixes bug where BOM and SILO metadata were not properly merged when using find_nearby_stations()

    • Fixes bug where closed stations are included in the nearest stations when using find_nearby_stations() and include_closed = FALSE (default).

    • Fixes the messages when stations aren’t found nearby. In certain cases the message indicated that a station_code was used when latitude and longitude had been provided and vice versa.

    • Fixes bug when there are no stations that meet the criteria set by the user and an error was emitted that “x” must be a {data.table} object. The function now simply errors if there are no stations from either API that meet the criteria.

  • get_dpird_extremes()

    • Fixes example in get_dpird_extremes() that didn’t use “your_api_key” as all other examples did for error checking.

    • Fixes example for get_dpird_extremes() that didn’t follow the package’s standard use of “your_api_key” for the api_key value in the example.

  • Fixes the re-export of terra::plot() where checks indicated that it does not have a documented return value or examples.

  • Fixes a bug where the package data was not available when this package was called by another, e.g., {extractOz} used get_patched_point() but could not validate the user-input values because silo_daily_values could not be found.

  • Fixes bug where results from get_dpird_summaries() were truncated to only a few of the last results requested rather than the full set from start date to end date.

  • Fixes bug where the DPIRD API would not properly respond to requests from Windows OS machines.

  • Fixes bug where SILO Data Drill gridded data were not available with enough precision.

  • Fixes bug where include_closed wasn’t passed along to the API when querying DPIRD station weather data. All queries now included closed stations by default so that a request for a closed station is not denied due to this not being specified, commit.

weatherOz 0.0.1

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