NEWS

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hydroscoper 2024-07-19

• remove pingr dependency

hydroscoper 2024-01-15

• Update dependencies

hydroscoper 2022-09-29

• remove defunct functions

hydroscoper 2021-05-14

• remove call to closeAllConnections() command

hydroscoper 2021-03-20

• Fail gracefully with an informative message if the hydroscope site is not available or has changed
• Update dependencies

hydroscoper 2020-07-03

• Update dependencies

hydroscoper 2019-06-02

• This version removes plyr dependency.

hydroscoper 2018-08-25

• This version fixes the errors found in CRAN Package Check Results.

hydroscoper 2018-07-06

• New functionality:

  • find_stations() returns a tibble with the nearest hydroscope's stations' distances using a given point coordinates.

hydroscoper 2018-03-16

• hydroscoper was transferred to rOpenSci: https://github.com/ropensci/hydroscoper

• General

  • This is a major update. All the functions are rewritten utilizing the Enhydris API.
  • The included data in the package cover all Hydroscope's databases.
  • Add vignettes "An introduction to hydroscoper" and "Using hydroscoper's data".
  • Add package documentation site.
  • Use pingr package to check if a sub-domain is alive.
  • All the functions return tibbles.
  • Add greece_borders dataset.

• New functionality:

  • get_instruments() returns a tibble with the instruments' data.
  • get_water_basins() returns a tibble with the Water Basins' data.
  • get_water_divisions() returns a tibble with the Water Divisions' data.
  • get_political_divisions() returns a tibble with the Political Divisions' data.
  • get_variables() returns a tibble with the Variables' data.
  • get_units_of_measurement() returns a tibble with the Units' data.
  • get_time_steps() returns a tibble with the Time Steps' data.
  • get_owners() returns a tibble with the Owners' data.
  • get_instruments_type()returns a tibble with the Instruments' type data.
  • get_station_type() returns a tibble with the Water Basins data.
  • get_database() returns a tibble with the Water Basins data.
  • hydro_coords returns a tibble with the stations' longitudes and latitudes using as input the variable point from get_stations function.
  • hydro_translate() translates various Greek terms to English.

• Changes

  • get_stations and get_timeseries use the Enhydris API and are considerably faster.
  • get_data uses lower case variable naming: date, value, comment

• Defuncs

  • get_coords has been removed from the package. Please use hydro_coords to convert Hydroscope's points' raw format to a tibble.

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hydroscoper 2017-12-22

• Initial submission to CRAN.