rrricanes 0.2.0-6 (2017-07-16)

NEW FEATURES

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MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• get_storms and get_storm_data have been rewritten to utilize pkg crul's asynchronous features. This will not make much of a difference in get_storms (and may actually be slightly slower; to be explained). But the difference with get_storm_data should be very noticeable. There is a limit to hitting the NHC archives; 80 requests per 10 seconds. Both functions send 4 links through every 0.5 seconds to avoid this limit. Timeout issues should no longer occur so options rrricanes.http_attempts and rrricanes.http_timeout have been removed. The primary cause of long processing now is due to scraping, particularly with the fstadv products; the amount of data in these products and the unstructured nature of the products require a number of rules. This can probably be simplified in future releases. (#94)

BUG FIXES

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DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

• load_storm_data has been removed in favor of loading rrricanesdata. See
  vignette "installing_rrricanesdata" for more information.