StreamCatTools 0.11.0

• Adds new lc_get_watershed function to return a lake watershed as an sf feature for a LakeCat (NHDPlusV2 Waterbody) COMID from an S3-hosted, HUC2-partitioned GeoParquet dataset
• Uses optional HUC2 query as well as retries, multi-threading and duckdb to speed up retrieval of spatial data from AWS S3 bucket

StreamCatTools 0.10.0

• Adds new functions sc_get_nni() and lc_get_nni() for ease of access to National Nutrient Inventory data in StreamCat
• Adds new functions sc_plot() and lc_plot for plotting nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for watersheds
• Adds a new article describing functions for plotting National Nutrient Inventory data in StreamCat

StreamCatTools 0.9.1

• Handles a web service being down in testing using testthat::skip_on_cran()

• Converts most vignettes to articles and adds one new Start Here vignette

  StreamCatTools 0.9.1

• Handles a web service being down in testing using testthat::skip_on_cran()
• Converts most vignettes to articles and adds one new Start Here vignette

StreamCatTools 0.9.0

• Addresses CRAN error generated by tests that is
• Adds tryCatch handling for functions calling web services in order to fail gracefully and not produce errors
• Adds documentation to vignettes for two new functions added to the package

StreamCatTools 0.8.0

• Added code coverage to the package
• Added two new functions - sc_get_metric_names and lc_get_metric_names to make metric names and descriptions more searchable and slightly updated parameters in both sc_get_params and lc_get_params functions
• Both sc_get_data and lc_get_data now accept vectors as well as comma- separated strings for the metric, state, county and region parameters

StreamCatTools 0.7.0

• Updated both sc_get_data and lc_get_data to pass parameters in POST request body rather than header, providing ability to pass lengthy lists of COMIDS to those requests
• Fixed a bug in package tests that was causing an error when running testthat

StreamCatTools 0.6.0

• Added functionality in sc_get_data and lc_get_data to accommodate large numbers (e.g. > 700) COMIDs in header for POST request

StreamCatTools 0.5.0

• Overhauled sc_get_data and lc_get_data functions to be able to pull all metrics from StreamCat or LakeCat for an area of interest
• Updated sc_get_data and lc_get_data to be able to pass hundreds of COMIDs at a time as a function parameter and not error out in call to server
• Updated sc_get_params and lc_get_params to now return variable information, as well as just metric names and full names, and return tables of state and county abbreviations, names and FIPS codes

StreamCatTools 0.4.0

• Overhauled all functions to use the new api.epa.gov endpoints for StreamCat described in swagger documentation
• Streamlined sc_get_data and lc_get_data requests with httr2
• Adopted functionality in all package functions to use the Oracle ORDs Database REST API rather than previous JAVA REST service

StreamCatTools 0.3.0

• Incorporated POST requests in httr2 requests to deal with many COMIDs in requests
• Added documentation to vignette for working with LakeCat data in the package

StreamCatTools 0.2.0

• Added LakeCat functions to the package:
  • lc_get_data
  • lc_get_params
• Changed lifecycle to stable

StreamCatTools 0.1.1.9002

• Fixed sc_get_data to pass COMIDs to function more robustly
• Added sc_nlcd helper function to more easily grab NLCD based metrics from StreamCat
• Updated package documentation

StreamCatTools 0.1.1.9001

• API is publicly released and the package works now for everyone (not just those inside EPA network)

StreamCatTools 0.1.1.9000

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.