NEWS.md
Introduce extract_patched_point() to get SILO Patched Point station data from the nearest station(s) to a given set of geographic coordinates.
Introduce extract_data_drill() to get SILO Data Drill interpolated data from a given set of geographic coordinates.
GRDC Agroecoregions geopackage file is reduced in size by reducing the complexity through, r rmapshaper::ms_simplify(aez, keep = 0.1, keep_shapes = FALSE)
Internal GRDC Agroecoregions object uses the same simplified GPKG and is saved using “xz” compression to save more file space.
Use {roxyglobals} for tracking global objects in the package in a tidier fashion.
All functions related to retrieving or extracting data are now prefixed as extract_noun().
Revert using internal data as geopackage, use in examples but use .Rda internally.
Add support for extracting weather data from the NASA POWER database, extract_power().
Move from {cropgrowdays} to {weatherOz}, this allows for more flexibility in the queries that can be performed in SILO. {cropgrowdays} only supports APSIM data returns, {weatherOz} supports the full compliment of SILO data options.
Use a named list of latitude and longitude input values rather than a data.frame. To help users, a new function, df_to_list() has been added so that the workflow disruption can be minimised.
Any objects returned are a data.table, aligning with {weatherOz}.
Enhanced tests.
Add ability to manage DAAS soil order cache.
Add ability to download DAAS soil order data but not cache locally (default behaviour now).