Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

climate 1.2.4

• R version >= 4.1 is now required
• Major bug fixes for ogimet-related retrievals due to changes in the OGIMET service
• Minor fixes for reading stations’ coordinates from ogimet_stations(). Increased accuracy and changed logic for detecting hemisphere
• Adding hydro_imgw_datastore() to retrieve data for hydrological stations from IMGW-PIB repository datastore (telemetry system)
  • Adding stations_hydro_imgw_telemetry() to retrieve coordinates metadata for hydrological telemetry stations from IMGW-PIB

climate 1.2.32025-04-23

• Fixes and modifications for meteo_imgw_daily() and meteo_imgw_hourly() due to changes in the IMGW-PIB meteorological datasets since 2024
  • adjusting code to recognize whether downloaded zip file is not corrupted and use the “archive” package to resolve some of found edge cases
  • skipping corrupted files without breaking the download
  • removed possibility to download stations from IMGW-PIB repository using stations’ ID for daily intervals
• Returning all available IMGW-PIB meteorological dataset if provided station name(s) was not found
• Logging errors in package environment and providing summary at the end of downloading instead of instant messaging
• Minor changes in unit-tests to adjust for most recent code changes

climate 1.2.22024-12-20

• Fixes and modifications for hydro_imgw() set of functions due to changes in the IMGW-PIB hydrological datasets
  • adjusting code to recognize different encoding and directory structure
  • adjusting changes in metadata
  • removed option to download data for “semiannual and annual” time resolutions due to inconsistencies in the data
• Fix unit tests for ogimet- and IMGW-related datasets
• Resolving date formatting for hydrological data - the Date column represents calendar date
• Corrected logic in downloading hourly OGIMET dataset

climate 1.2.12024-10-19

• Major fixes for adjusting code to stay in line with CRAN policies
• Corrected duplicated column names for IMGW-PIB stations
• Adjusted encoding changes and documentation updates in meteo_imgw_telemetry_stations()

climate 1.2.0

• Corrected encoding problems for some of platforms where IMGW-PIB metadata were not parsed correctly
• Added location of IMGW-PIB telemetry stations within meteo_imgw_telemetry_stations()
• Minor bug fixes

climate 1.1.1

• Fix problems with downloading precip dataset from IMGW-PIB repository after recent changes in metadata
• Bug fix for ogimet_daily if data contains more than one year

climate 1.1.0

• A new approach for handling CRAN policy for resolving problems if network issues are detected or some of the external services are temporarily down.
• Adding allow_failure argument used by default that turns off automatic debugging but avoid warnings and errors for most typical use cases
• re-factoring of unit tests
• documentation build with CI/CD
• updating vignettes and examples, including the way to use climate with Python

climate 1.0.52022-08-09

• meteo_imgw family of functions supports multiple names as argument - bug fix
• unit tests and code coverage computed with CI/CD
• units added to column labels for nearest_stations_ set of functions instead of column names for easier processing (e.g. [km] are visible now only as attributes)
• new functions follow lintr settings

climate 1.0.42022-02-22

• Function spheroid_dist added to improve accuracy of calculations between points, but also avoid installing GIS dependencies (thanks to @kadyb)
• Function nearest_stations_imgw() now uses the Vincenty’s formula in spheroid_dist to calculate the distance between points on a spheroid, not the Euclidean distance (previously results were inaccurate for some specific cases)
• minor bugs fixes and improvements

climate 1.0.32021-09-20

• Adding possibility to download BUFR vertical sounding dataset from http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html; extra information with supporting example added to the sounding_wyoming’s documentation
• hydro_imgw supports now exception for current year which has no flow data until it is verified by the IMGW-PIB
• ogimet_daily automatically detects column names to be used for extraction in final data.frame; extra debugging info when temperature or precipitation columns are missing
• minor changes in documentation (e.g. updated links to NOAA website)

climate 1.0.12021-05-02

• Adding data.table package to read CP1250 on machines that do not support this encoding (translit used instead)

climate 0.9.92021-01-08

• Changing URL danepubliczne.imgw.pl to dane.imgw.pl where needed
• Fixing minor ogimet and IMGW bugs
• Do not stop downloading data from ogimet.com, instead check for all available data in given period of time

climate 0.9.82020-08-03

• Adding informative message if problems with NOAA hourly dataset occur
• Informative message if problems with downloading detected for non-IMGW dataset

climate 0.9.72020-07-22

• stop working if no internet connection detected

climate 0.9.62020-06-03

• Adding nearest_stations_noaa for NOAA hourly dataset

climate 0.9.52020-05-05

• Following CRAN policies
  • Adding information if connection issues detected or URL no accessible
  • RCurl dependency removal
  • CO2 & Wyoming examplary data can be loaded offline

climate 0.9.42020-04-20

• New dataset:
  • Hourly NOAA ISH (Integrated Surface Hourly) data - global meteorological dataset dated back up to 1900

climate 0.9.32020-03-30

• Bug fixes
  • #27
• New datasets:
  • CO2 concentration from Mauna Loa observatory

climate 0.9.22020-03-21

• Bug fixes
  • #26

climate 0.9.12020-01-30

• climate is independent of imgw package
• Bug fixes
  • #24
• restored possibility of downloading single station from Polish (IMGW) repository

climate 0.3

• improves API

climate 0.2

• splits imgw into two packages: imgw and climate