NEWS

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hydrodownloadR 0.1.3 (2026-02-25)

• add script for US_USGS_XXX that builds compact USGS station metadata bundle for hydrodownloadRdata release asset
• update USGS metadata cache
• dynamical country name as in register correction of open_data usage of BA_AVPS
• change elevation to altitude due to consistency
• SE SMHI altitude as numeric
• Consistency in data structure station_id of AR_INA as character
• Consistency in data structure area of EE_EST as numeric
• Same caching of PL_IMGW as other adapters

hydrodownloadR 0.1.2

• AT water level unit corrected
• AU ts_name is now DMQaQc.Merged.DailyMean.24HR instead of 09HR
• BA adapter completed
• BE_XXX Normalize range to POSIXct (UTC) to avoid POSIXct–Date comparison warnings
• across platforms (incl. HPC nodes) and to include the full end day.
• CH adding missing water quality parameter
• DK fix force HTTP/1.1 for timeseries requests
• US_USGS_XXX unit conversion (area and altitude)
• including Spain CEDEX adapter

hydrodownloadR 0.1.1

• Fix HTML manual validation for pl_imgw_meta documentation.
• Minor DESCRIPTION wording updates.

hydrodownloadR 0.1.0

• Initial internal release.
• Registry + S3 architecture (stations(), timeseries()).
• Rate limiting, retries, UTF-8→ASCII normalization.
• WGS84 coordinate transforms (via {sf}).