News

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weathercan 0.2.8 (2018-10-08)

Bug fixes

• Add timezones to the stations data frame to remove dependency of Google API. Timezones added with the lutz package, so updates the the stations data frame now require lutz and sf packages (added to Suggests).

Changes

• Sort stations by station_id not by station_name

Other

• Update all internal data frames

weathercan 0.2.7 (2018-06-27)

Bug fixes

• Fix bug created when ECCC changed file metadata for dates after April 1st 2018 (only affected downloads which included dates both before AND after April 1st, 2018) - Results in a new column station_operator for all data (NA where unavailable for older stations).
• Adjust code flexibility to handle future changes
• Add catch to warn user if end dates earlier than start dates

Changes

• Update readme/vignettes/internal data sets to include new columns
• Update internal stations data frame as well as flags and glossary
• Remove tibble dependency by relying on dplyr

weathercan 0.2.6 (2018-05-25)

Bug fixes

• Fix bug created when ECCC removed Data Quality Column
• Adjust code flexibility to handle future changes
• Add tests to catch future changes

weathercan 0.2.5 (2018-03-02)

Changes

• More sensible messages when missing station data
• Streamline messages from multiple stations
• Accepts older R version
• stations_dl fails gracefully on R versions < 3.3.4
• Update stations dataframe

Bug fixes

• Fix error when missing station data from one of several stations

weathercan 0.2.4 (2018-02-01)

Now part of ropensci.org!

Changes

• sp moved to suggests, users are now prompted to install sp if they want to search stations by coordinates
• weather_dl() replaces weather()
• weather_interp() replaces add_weather()
• stations_dl() replaces stations_all()
• tz_calc() replaces get_tz()
• Internal code modifications to match best practices

weathercan 0.2.3 (2017-11-22)

Changes

• Updated stations data
• Added flags and glossary datasets as well as vignettes
• stations_search() warns user if name looks like coords
• stations_search() with coord now returns closest 10 stations
• add_weather() warns user if trying to interpolate weather from >1 station
• Updated code to conform with rOpenSci requirements
• Data downloaded from multiple timezones defaults to UTC

Bug fixes

• weather(format = FALSE) properly returns data
• updated weather() to work with lubridate 1.7.1

weathercan 0.2.2 (2017-06-16)

Changes

• Update and expand vignettes (closes #15)
• Data now returned as tibbles
• Added listcol functionality (closes #8)
• Added internal tests for interpolation
• Updated R version
• Standardized reference to stations dataset (stn) in all functions

Major changes

• envirocan renamed to weathercan (closes #17)

Bug fixes

• Fixed inclusion of New Brunswick stations (closes #9)
• Downloads with no data return empty tibble and an informative message (closes #21)

envirocan 0.2.1 (2017-03-04)

• Minor bug fixes: correcting encoding information for downloads, updating function calls to dplyr package, updating stations dataset

envirocan 0.2.0 (2016-07-08)

• Added new function, add_weather() which performs a linear interpolation and merges weather data into an existing data frame.
• Added two new hourly datasets with weather data downloaded for Kamloops and Prince George, BC: kamloops, pg
• Added a new daily dataset for Kamloops: kamloops_day
• Fixed a bug when downloading data from multiple stations at the same time
• Changed 'timeframe' arguments to 'interval'
• Minor internal adjustments

envirocan 0.1.1.1 (2016-06-23)

• quick fix to correct duplicated monthly data downloads

envirocan 0.1.1 (2016-06-23)

Functionality

• Allow blank start/end dates to download whole data set
• Add option to trim missing data from start and end of the range

Bug fixes

• Add messages so functions fail gracefully if timezone doesn't exist
• Correct bugs that prevented downloading of monthly data

envirocan 0.1.0 (2016-06-21)

This is the initial release for envirocan.

Include functionality:

Finding stations:

• stations data frame to look up station data
• stations_search() function to search for a station by name or proximity
• stations_all() to download a new stations data set from Environment Canada

Downloading weather:

• weather() function to specify station_id(s) start and end dates for downloading data.

Reference manual