NEWS.md

In gavinsimpson/canadaHCD: Canadian Historical Climate Data

canadaHCD 0.0.3

User visible changes

• Data sets now return the Climate ID as variable Climate ID, not the Station ID. This is a change in the data files that can be downloaded from the Canadian Historical Climate Data server. Reported by @BastienFR #28

• Time zone information is now added to the DateTime (POSIXct) variable returned for the hourly data. The time zone for each station is stored in station_data, and is looked up using tz_lookup_coords() from the lutz package. #18 Reported by @BastienFR with lutz solution suggested by @ateucher

New features

• climate_id() and station_id() functions that return the Climate ID (Station ID) for a supplied Station ID (Climate ID). These are helper functions to facilitate switching between the two identifier systems used by the HCD system.

• update_station_data() can update the station data stored within canadaHCD. Currently only downloads and formats the station data, but eventually will replace the stored data.

Bug Fixes

• hcd_hourly() and related functions updated to read the new data structure for hourly data. Reported by @dankelly #29

• collapse_hcd() now explicitly sorts data by Date / DateTime. Reported by @ConorIA #26

gavinsimpson/canadaHCD documentation built on Sept. 23, 2023, 3:13 a.m.