v2.0.2

weatherOz 2.0.2 - CRAN re-submission

This release addresses the compatibility issues that led to the package being archived on CRAN (2025-08-25). The fixes include VCR/HTTP testing compatibility with updated crul package dependencies and resolving URL validation issues identified in CRAN checks.

What is changed?

• Fixed VCR/crul compatibility: Updated minimum vcr requirement to >= 2.0.0 to resolve compatibility issues with crul >= 1.6.0
• Resolved deprecated mock() function: All VCR cassette testing now works with the latest HTTP testing infrastructure
• Fixed curl import warnings: Added @importFrom curl for all curl functions used in the package
• Updated URLs across README.md, R file, documentation and vignettes

URL updates and fixes

Updated DPIRD URLs: Fixed all broken URLs following DPIRD's system migration

• https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/web-apis → https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/online-tools/apis/
• https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/apis/api-terms-and-conditions → https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/online-tools/apis/api-terms-and-conditions/
• https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/form/dpird-api-registration → https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/forms/dpird-api-registration/
• Updated URLs: Fixed pulse industry URL redirect
  • https://www.pulseaus.com.au/about/australian-pulse-industry → https://grainsaustralia.com.au

Test improvements

• Flexible station count testing: Update tests to use ranges instead of fixed station counts
• Prevents test failures due to minor station count variations

No Breaking Changes

• All public API functions remain unchanged
• No user-facing functionality affected

Full Changelog: v2.0.1...v2.0.2

v2.0.1

Minor changes

• Update testthat tests to reflect changes in weather station and BOM Radar imagery availability

Bug fixes

• get_stations_metadata() fails to fetch data with invalid API key.
• Added check to query_dpird_api() when using an invalid DPIRD API key.

What's Changed

• fix test errors on CRAN by @bozaah in #95
• Add check for invalid/expired DPIRD API key by @adamhsparks in #94

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1

v2.0.0

Breaking changes

• Functions get_ag_bulletin() and parse_ag_bulletin() have been defunct because the underlying BOM agricultural bulletin service is no longer available. This removal constitutes a breaking change; please update your code accordingly.
• Documentation has been updated to reflect the removal of the get_ag_bulletin() and parse_ag_bulletin() functions.
• Tests for the get_ag_bulletin() and parse_ag_bulletin() functions now errors given that the functions are now defunct.

Bug fixes

• Fixes Issue 90 with the get_dpird_summaries() function where tests had fixed dates and errors were generated. The tests test-get_dpird_summaries.R have been updated to use previous year from the current date and the tests now pass.
• Fixes other bugs with the find_stations_in() and function where the function would not return the correct number of stations, given recent adjustments to the weather station infrastructure.

Additional fixes and improvements:

• Re-documented package to reflect changes
• Updated test vcr cassette/fixtures
• Updated BOM-related vignette
• Updated WORDLIST for spelling checks

What's Changed

• Fix typo in function arg by @johnbaums in #86
• lint package by @adamhsparks in #88
• lint package by @adamhsparks in #89
• Remove Agricultural Bulletin functionality by @bozaah in #92

New Contributors

• @johnbaums made their first contribution in #86

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v2.0.0

v1.0.0

Major Changes

• Addressed comments after initial CRAN submission (reduce file size and update links to packages/function in the documentation).

• Published manuscript describing package in the Journal of Open Source Software

• Package was peer reviewed.

• Changes the name of the function get_station_metadata() to get_stations_metadata() to avoid clashes with {stationaRy}.

• Adds new functionality, find_stations_in() to assist in finding stations in a bounding box or geospatial polygon.

• Allows user to pass along a factor as the station_code when requesting weather data.
  This allows for the use of the metadata returned from get_stations_metadata() to be used directly in queries without changing the class of the station_code column from factor to character.

• Added functionality to get_station_metadata() so that it returns the metadata for only one station if required, commit.

• Several enhanced checks for user inputs to ensure that valid requests are made before sending the API queries are now in place.

Bug Fixes

• find_nearby_stations()

  • Fixes bug where find_forecast_towns() returned all values, not the proper values.

  • Fixes bug where BOM and SILO metadata were not properly merged when using find_nearby_stations()

  • Fixes bug where closed stations are included in the nearest stations when using find_nearby_stations() and include_closed = FALSE (default).

  • Fixes the messages when stations aren't found nearby. In certain cases the message indicated that a station_code was used when latitude and longitude had been provided and vice versa.

  • Fixes bug when there are no stations that meet the criteria set by the user and an error was emitted that "x" must be a {data.table} object. The function now simply errors if there are no stations from either API that meet the criteria.

• get_dpird_extremes()

  • Fixes example in get_dpird_extremes() that didn't use "your_api_key" as all other examples did for error checking.

  • Fixes example for get_dpird_extremes() that didn't follow the package's standard use of "your_api_key" for the api_key value in the example.

• Fixes the re-export of terra::plot() where checks indicated that it does not have a documented return value or examples.

• Fixes a bug where the package data was not available when this package was called by another, e.g., {extractOz} used get_patched_point() but could not validate the user-input values because silo_daily_values could not be found.

• Fixes bug where results from get_dpird_summaries() were truncated to only a few of the last results requested rather than the full set from start date to end date.

• Fixes bug where the DPIRD API would not properly respond to requests from Windows OS machines.

• Fixes bug where SILO Data Drill gridded data were not available with enough precision.

• Fixes bug where include_closed wasn't passed along to the API when querying DPIRD station weather data.
  All queries now included closed stations by default so that a request for a closed station is not denied due to this not being specified, commit.

v0.0.1

First official release