version 1.2.0

DESCRIPTION

@@ -2,20 +2,21 @@ Package: rNOMADS
 Type: Package
 Title: An interface to the NOAA Operational Model Archive and
         Distribution System
-Version: 1.0.1
-Date: 2013-08-23
+Version: 1.2.0
+Date: 2013-10-28
 Authors@R: c(person(given="Daniel C.",family="Bowman", role=c("aut", "cre"),
         email="daniel.bowman@unc.edu"))
-Depends: R (>= 3.0.0), fields (>= 6.7.6)
+Depends: R (>= 3.0.2), scrapeR (>= 0.1.6), stringr (>= 0.6.2), fields
+        (>= 6.7.6)
 Suggests: GEOmap (>= 2.1)
-Description: Automatically download forecast data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) and read it into R.  Currently, the Global Forecast System 0.5 x 0.5 degree model is the only one supported, but future versions of rNOMADS will include an interface to all models on NOMADS. rNOMADS uses an external series of routines called wgrib2 to read the model data; get wgrib2 at http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/. 
+Description: An interface to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) that allows R users to quickly and efficiently download global and regional weather model data for processing.  rNOMADS currently supports 54 models, ranging from global weather data to an altitude of 40 km, to high resolution regional weather models, to wave and sea ice models. rNOMADS uses an external series of routines called wgrib2 to read the model data into R; get wgrib2 at http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/. Future versions of rNOMADS will have a native data reader.
 License: GPL (>= 3)
 URL: http://code.google.com/p/bovine-aerospace/ (subversion repository)
         http://www.unc.edu/~haksaeng/rNOMADS/rNOMADS_examples.pdf (some
         examples)
-Packaged: 2013-08-23 18:29:40 UTC; bowman
-Author: Daniel Bowman [aut, cre]
-Maintainer: Daniel Bowman <daniel.bowman@unc.edu>
+Packaged: 2013-10-28 23:38:13 UTC; dantayaga
+Author: Daniel C. Bowman [aut, cre]
+Maintainer: Daniel C. Bowman <daniel.bowman@unc.edu>
 NeedsCompilation: no
 Repository: CRAN
-Date/Publication: 2013-08-23 20:59:34
+Date/Publication: 2013-10-29 07:58:07

MD5

@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
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 8b54e5a89fbda3af5e077053d40bec76 *NAMESPACE
-4549e390297df26684f71bce8c710e85 *NEWS
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-e206f3d56c2d6b51745c3ca53fd725ac *R/ReadGrib.R
+aea696128a88fab764070b5b96000ec2 *NEWS
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-e00f975422ae110d7a110bb4fc6a0bb1 *man/rNOMADS-package.Rd
+ecc05a650bf8a9bb66d6e0b304fa84fb *man/CrawlModels.Rd
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+72a485c026302c53600129123e88f3d4 *man/NOMADSList.Rd
+31934edbe61a9df8adce91ef50efa283 *man/ParseModelPage.Rd
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NEWS

@@ -6,3 +6,13 @@ GribGrab now returns file name, model run date, and forecast date for the GRIB f
 GetModelRunHour now returns the model date in addition to the other things it already returned
 You can now specify whether you want the previous forecast or the next forecast in GribGrab
 Any code that worked with rNOMADS 1.0-0 should run with rNOMADS 1.0-1 without any trouble.
+
+1.2-0
+A major update that provides access to all NOMADS models with the "grib filter" option on the NOMADS web site 
+(http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/).
+This adds up to 54 models in all.
+rNOMADS now scrapes the model pages to determine the variables, levels and forecasts available for each.
+This has necessitated major changes to some functions.
+See the supplied vignette link on the rNOMADS page on CRAN for examples of how the new rNOMADS code works.
+The lack of a good GRIB file format reader in R is still vexing, and I plan to write a small package to take care of this.
+A future version of rNOMADS will call this package to remove the necessity of installing third party software.