VIC

Major changes

• Hugh Parsonage has joined as a contributor
• Added a new function get_current_weather() to retrieve weather data from specified BOM weather stations
• Added a new function sweep_for_stations() to find stations used in get_current_weather() function, based on distance from a specified latitude and longitude
• Renamed existing functions for more clarity.
  • get_forecast() is now get_precis_forecast()
  • get_bulletin() is now get_ag_bulletin()
  • update_locations() is now update_precis_locations()

Minor changes

• All functions will return a data.frame object, not a tibble
• If a server is not responding, the function returns a more meaningful error message on exit
• All date/times are returned in POSIXct format
• UTC offset is returned in a separate UTC_offset field for get_precis_forecast() for both start_time_local and end_time_local fields
• Spelling and typo corrections
• Enhanced documentation

Bug fixes

• Correct output for ag bulletin where the observation site is listed but has no values. The site will be listed with location data and NA for all meteorological values