adding package documentation

CONDUCT.md

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+# Contributor Code of Conduct
+
+As contributors and maintainers of this project, we pledge to respect all people who 
+contribute through reporting issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation,
+submitting pull requests or patches, and other activities.
+
+We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for
+everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression,
+sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, or religion.
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include the use of sexual language or
+imagery, derogatory comments or personal attacks, trolling, public or private harassment,
+insults, or other unprofessional conduct.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments,
+commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this 
+Code of Conduct. Project maintainers who do not follow the Code of Conduct may be removed 
+from the project team.
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by 
+opening an issue or contacting one or more of the project maintainers.
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant 
+(http:contributor-covenant.org), version 1.0.0, available at 
+http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/0/0/

NEWS.md

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+# daymetr 1.2
+
+* Released to CRAN
+* Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package
+
+# daymetr 1.1
+
+* Migration to Daymet V3
+* Move to httr for download routines
+* Added tile subsetting routines
+
+# daymetr 1.0
+
+* First release

cran-comments.md

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+I have read and agree to the the CRAN policies at
+http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
+
+R CMD CHECK passed on my local OS X install on R 3.3.1 and
+R development version, Ubuntu running on Travis-CI.
+
+This is a new submission.
+
+Thanks! Koen Hufkens