diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b44c1e56..0a42de34 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: bomrang
 Type: Package
 Title: Fetch Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Data
-Version: 0.0.4
+Version: 0.0.4-1
 Date: 2017-06-05
 Authors@R: c(person("Adam", "Sparks", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "adamhsparks@gmail.com"),
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Depends:
 Imports:
     curl,
     data.table,
-    dplyr,
+    dplyr (>= 0.7.0),
     foreign,
     httr,
     magrittr,
diff --git a/R/get_ag_bulletin.R b/R/get_ag_bulletin.R
index 5fe0231a..d3947b56 100644
--- a/R/get_ag_bulletin.R
+++ b/R/get_ag_bulletin.R
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 
-
 #' BOM agriculture bulletin information
 #'
 #'Fetch the BOM agricultural bulletin information and return a tidy data frame
@@ -257,13 +256,12 @@ else if (state == "AUS") {
 
   tidy_df <-
     tidy_df %>%
+    dplyr::mutate_at(tidy_df, .funs = as.character, .vars = "time.zone") %>%
     dplyr::rename(
       obs_time_local = obs.time.local,
       obs_time_utc = obs.time.utc,
       time_zone = time.zone
-    ) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), obs_time_utc) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), time_zone)
+    )
 
   tidy_df <-
     dplyr::select(
diff --git a/R/get_precis_forecast.R b/R/get_precis_forecast.R
index db8026db..57847eff 100644
--- a/R/get_precis_forecast.R
+++ b/R/get_precis_forecast.R
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 
+
+
 #' BOM daily précis forecast
 #'
 #'Fetch the BOM daily précis forecast and return a tidy data frame of the daily
@@ -136,8 +138,8 @@ get_precis_forecast <- function(state = NULL) {
 
   out <- tidyr::spread(out, key = attrs, value = values)
   out <-
+    out %>%
     dplyr::rename(
-      out,
       maximum_temperature = `c("air_temperature_maximum", "Celsius")`,
       minimum_temperature = `c("air_temperature_minimum", "Celsius")`,
       start_time_local = `start-time-local`,
@@ -145,15 +147,17 @@ get_precis_forecast <- function(state = NULL) {
       start_time_utc = `start-time-utc`,
       end_time_utc = `end-time-utc`
     ) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), aac) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), precipitation_range) %>%
+    dplyr::mutate_at(.funs = as.character,
+                     .vars = c("aac",
+                               "precipitation_range")) %>%
     tidyr::separate(end_time_local,
                     into = c("end_time_local", "UTC_offset"),
-                    sep = "\\+",) %>%
+                    sep = "\\+") %>%
     tidyr::separate(
       start_time_local,
       into = c("start_time_local", "UTC_offset_drop"),
-      sep = "\\+") %>%
+      sep = "\\+"
+    ) %>%
     dplyr::select(-UTC_offset_drop)
 
   out$probability_of_precipitation <-
@@ -205,17 +209,26 @@ get_precis_forecast <- function(state = NULL) {
     dplyr::rename(lon = LON,
                   lat = LAT,
                   elev = ELEVATION) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), start_time_local) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), start_time_local) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), end_time_local) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), start_time_utc) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), end_time_utc) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.numeric), maximum_temperature) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.numeric), minimum_temperature) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.numeric), lower_prec_limit) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.numeric), lower_prec_limit) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), precis) %>%
-    dplyr::mutate_each(dplyr::funs(as.character), probability_of_precipitation) %>%
+    dplyr::mutate_at(
+      .funs = as.character,
+      .vars = c(
+        "start_time_local",
+        "end_time_local",
+        "start_time_utc",
+        "end_time_utc",
+        "precis",
+        "probability_of_precipitation"
+      )
+    ) %>%
+    dplyr::mutate_at(
+      .funs = as.numeric,
+      .vars = c(
+        "maximum_temperature",
+        "minimum_temperature",
+        "lower_prec_limit",
+        "lower_prec_limit"
+      )
+    ) %>%
     dplyr::rename(location = PT_NAME)
 
   # add state field