NEWS

azmetr 0.5.0.9000

The AZMet API was updated to return HTTP error codes for bad requests or server errors and these are now displayed to users.
Updated az_add_units() to include columns returned by az_15min(), az_lw15min(), and az_lwdaily()
Added Duncan station ("az46") to station information
tibbles produced by az_*() functions now have the "labels" attribute set on columns. This is used for things like tooltips in the Positron data viewer and default axis labels for ggplot2 plots (https://tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/#labels)
Updated package to access data from 2020
Added end_date variable with value NA to azmet-station-info.csv
Reformatted start_date variable to work with data download functions
Added Elgin station ("az47") to station information
Added start_date and status variables to azmet-station-info.csv
Added Chino Valley station ("az45") to station information
Added Test station ("az99") to station information

Added function az_lwdaily() for downloading daily leaf wetness data, which now are available via the API
Added function az_lw15min() for downloading 15-minute (a.k.a. "real-time") leaf wetness data, which now are available via the API
Added function az_15min() for downloading 15-minute (a.k.a. "real-time") data, which now are available via the API

az_hourly() now accepts dates for start_date_time and end_date_time
Improved messages regarding what date/time ranges are being queried and returned by data retrieval functions.
az_hourly() now returns data from the previous hour when start_date_time and end_date_time are not supplied rather than returning the previous day of hourly data.
azmet is now much more verbose, printing messages about which data are requested and which data are returned.
Added an option "azmet.print_api_call" which, when set to TRUE prints the HTTP request sent to the API—for debugging purposes.
Fixed a bug that caused an error when data was requested from all stations but some stations didn't have data for all variables.
Requests for data before January 1, 2021 now error, since these data are not on the AZMet API (yet).

az_daily() and az_hourly() now print a warning if there is any missing data for the combination of dates and stations requested
Transferred maintenance of package to Jeremy Weiss
Timestamp for hourly and daily maximum two-minute sustained wind speeds, wind_2min_timestamp now appears in downloaded data
Variable type for hourly and daily wind_2min_timestamp now is date-time instead of character with correct time zone, tzone = "America/Phoenix"
Values for hourly date_datetime variable now have tzone = "America/Phoenix" assigned
The station_info dataset now includes elevation

azmetr now uses the httr2 package instead of httr for API requests. This change allowed for easier rate limiting
There is now a rate limit of 4 requests per second to the API. This shouldn't cause noticeable slowdowns except when using the station_id argument maybe
az_add_units() now adds units to new wind_2min_* variables recently added to the API

functions now check if supplied station_id is valid and an active station before querying the API
added station_info dataset with station names, IDs, and location.
az_daily() and az_hourly() convert values like -999, -9999, etc. into NAs
functions now return a 0x0 tibble when no data is returned by the API
changed internal use of base R pipe (|>) to magrittr pipe (%>%) instead of requiring R 4.1 or later
exports magrittr pipe (%>%) so it can be used when loading only azmetr
You can now supply POSIXct or Date values to start_date and end_date arguments in addition to character ISO representations of date (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD). You can supply POSIXct to start_date_time and end_date_time. Additionally, you can use character with at least (but potentially more) precision to the hour. (e.g., YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS now works and gets rounded down to the nearest hour).
added vignettes
fixed a bug where the wrong units were added to variables ending in _mps by az_add_units()

Functions for accessing hourly (az_hourly()) and daily (az_daily()) weather, and cumulative heat units / ETO (az_heat()) added.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.