Changes in version 2024-07-19 - pingr dependency has been removed. The check if a sub-domain is alive is performed by a native R function. Changes in version 2024-01-15 - Update dependencies Changes in version 2022-09-29 - remove defunct functions Changes in version 2021-05-14 - remove call to closeAllConnections() command Changes in version 2021-03-20 - Fail gracefully with an informative message if the hydroscope site is not available or has changed - Update dependencies Changes in version 2020-07-03 - Update dependencies Changes in version 2019-06-02 - This version removes plyr dependency. Changes in version 2018-08-25 - This version fixes the errors found in CRAN Package Check Results. Changes in version 2018-07-06 - New functionality: - find_stations() returns a tibble with the nearest hydroscope's stations' distances using a given point coordinates. Changes in version 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. - 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. Changes in version 2017-12-22 - Initial submission to CRAN.