Release v0.2 · ropensci/rnoaa

NEW FEATURES

New package imports: sp, rgeos, assertthat, jsonlite, and ncdf4, and new package Suggests: knitr, taxize
Most function names changed. All noaa*() functions for NCDC data changed to ncdc*(). noaa_buoy() changed to buoy(). noaa_seaice() changed to seaice(). When you call the old versions an error is thrown, with a message pointing you to the new function name. See ?rnoaa-defunct.
New vignettes: NCDC attributes, NCDC workflow, Seaice vignette, SWDI vignette, ERDDAP vignette, NOAA buoy vignette.
New functions to interact with NOAA ERDDAP data: erddap_info(), erddap_data(), and erddap_search().
New functions to interact with NOAA buoy data: buoy(), including a number of helper functions.
ncdc() now splits apart attributes. Previously, the attributes were returned as a single column, but now there is column for each attribute so data can be easily retrieved. Attribute columns differ for each different datasetid.
buoy() function has been removed from the CRAN version of rnoaa. Install the version with buoy() and associated functions via devtools::install_github("ropensci/rnoaa", ref="buoy")

noaa_swdi() (function changed to swdi()) gains new parameter filepath to specify path to write a file to if format=kmz or format=shp. Examples added for using format= csv, shp, and kmz.
Now using internal version of plyr::compact.
Added API response checker/handler to all functions to pass on helpful messages on server errors.
ncdc() gains new parameter includemetadata. If TRUE, includes metadata, if not, does not, and response should be faster as does not take time to calculate metadata.
noaa_stations() gains new parameter radius. If extent is a vector of length 4 (for a bounding box) then radius is ignored, but if you pass in two points to extent, it is interpreted as a point, and then radius is used as the distance upon which to construct a bounding box. radius default is 10 km.

datasetid, startdate, and enddate are often required parameters, and changes were made to help users with this.