hydroscoper 1.0.0 (Release date: 2018-03-16)

• hydroscoper was transfered 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 data frame with the instruments’ data.
• get_water_basins() returns a data frame with the Water Basins’ data.
• get_water_divisions() returns a data frame with the Water Divisions’ data.
• get_political_divisions() returns a data frame with the Political Divisions’ data.
• get_variables() returns a data frame with the Variables’ data.
• get_units_of_measurement() returns a data frame with the Units’ data.
• get_time_steps() returns a data frame with the Time Steps’ data.
• get_owners() returns a data frame with the Owners’ data.
• get_instruments_type()returns a data frame with the Instruments’ type data.
• get_station_type() returns a data frame with the Water Basins data.
• get_database() returns a data frame with the Water Basins data.
• hydro_coords returns a data frame 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 tidy data frame.

hydroscoper 0.1.0 (Release date: 2017-12-22)

• Initial submission to CRAN.