Changelog • chirps

CHANGES IN BEHAVIOUR

Remove Imports of pkg ‘tibble’ which was basically to provide a “cool” print method.
A new print() method is added for objects that inherits the class ‘chirps_df’
Pkg ‘methods’ was moved from Imports to Depends
Comments/suggestions given by Jake Zwart in rOpenSci pkg review are added

ENHANCEMENTS

Comments/suggestions given by Claudia Vitolo in rOpenSci pkg review are added
dataframe_to_geojson(), sf_to_geojson() are added as exported functions avoinding chirps:::
documentation for tapajos is given avoiding chirps:::

ENHANCEMENTS

Fix comments given by good practice goodpractice::gp(). Avoid long code lines, it is bad for readability. Avoid 1:length(…), 1:nrow(…), 1:ncol(…), 1:NROW(…) and 1:NCOL(…) expressions. Not import packages as a whole, as this can cause name clashes between the imported packages.

NEW FEATURES

S3 methods for objects of class “geojson” in get_chirps() and get_esi()
Package vignette
Prepare for submission to ropensci

ENHANCEMENTS

Validations in internal functions to transform ‘sf’ into geojson
Add properties features to geojson output in get_chirps() and get_esi() via .add_geojson_properties()

NEW FEATURES

get_esi is added to retrieve Evaporative Stress Index with S3 methods for “data.frame” and “sf”
S3 methods for objects of class “data.frame” and “sf” in get_chirps

CHANGES IN BEHAVIOUR

.get_request_progress and a while condition are added to check the progress of large requests and prevent the function to fail.
.GET is added as a general function to retrieve other datasets from ClimateSERV
improvements in internal functions documentation

NEW FEATURES

Calculate precipitation indices with precip_indices over a time span

GitHub-only release of prototype package.