Changes in version 0.5.4.9000                      

                 Changes in version 0.5.4 (2026-05-07)                  

  - get_parameters now correctly handles Date format as inputs by
    spanning on the right period;
  - Update rscd_casandra_end_date with new data
    availability: 2025-12-31 23:00:00.

                 Changes in version 0.5.3 (2026-02-06)                  

  - Custom labels are now handled properly in cut_seasons() ;
  - Switch to {httr2} to download files and API request ;
  - Skip plots when the remote database is not available.

                 Changes in version 0.5.2 (2026-01-09)                  

  - Give informative message when remote database is not available.

                 Changes in version 0.5.1 (2025-12-16)                  

  - Remove dependency on {latex2exp} that is scheduled for archival
    on 2026-01-03

                 Changes in version 0.5.0 (2025-11-10)                  

  - Update the data retrieving function to fail gracefully whenever the
    remote database is not accessible.
  - New function 'weather_windows()' to compute weather windows of a
    given duration.
  - Update the ending date of the Hindcast to 2024-12-31.

                 Changes in version 0.4.0 (2025-10-22)                  

  - New example data: rscd_data_example with an extract of some
    variables at a given node. See ?rscd_data_example for details.
  - New helper: fractional_day_of_year() to compute the fractional time
    since the beginning of a year.
  - New function plot_1d_specta() to plot 1D spectral data, with
    sea-states parameters.
  - New function metconv2zmcomp() to compute the u/v components. from
    meteorological wind speed and direction.
  - Adds {resourcecodedata} package as dependence, to ease the use of
    the package .
  - closest_point_field() and closest_point_field() now accept a list of
    locations instead of a single one (#3).

                 Changes in version 0.3.0 (2025-08-21)                  

  - rscd_mapplot(): add Resourcecode caption.
  - New helpers:
      - mean_direction() to compute (weighted) mean values of
        directional variables,
      - cut_directions() to bin a vector of directions into sectors,
        centered North;
      - cut_seasons() to compute the season from a datetime, with
        different definitions.
  - Fixed #7 (thanks @paalves).

                 Changes in version 0.2.1 (2024-12-03)                  

  - Move out the data from the package to {resourcecodedata} package to
    be compliant with CRAN limiting size of 5Mb.

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - Add some code linter;
  - Switch from ftpto https to download the spectral data, to increase
    stability;
  - Fix typos in the documentation (thanks to @jlegrand35);
  - zmcomp2metconv outputs a data.frame and gains an argument to name
    columns;
  - Fixed deprecated arguments in ggplot::theme() used in rscd_mapplot;
  - renamecompute_orbital_speeds to compute_orbital_speeds;
  - remove dependency to {arrow};
  - make data smaller by using tools::resaveRdaFiles("data/").

                        Changes in version 0.0.1                        

Initial version with very crude functionalities

  - Database configuration: coastline, depth, output variables, grids...
  - Download sea-state parameters of the FIELD grid from Casandra
    database;
  - Download 1D and 2D spectral data from the netCDF files via FTP;
  - Helpers to plot maps (e.g. bathymetry or spatial statistics);
  - Plot 1D and 2 spectrum;
  - Compute sea-state from 1D and 2D spectrum.