fix #170 added note to isd docs about errors with downloads for files…

… that dont exist
ropensci · Sep 13, 2016 · c4b638f · c4b638f
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diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Description: Client for many 'NOAA' data sources including the 'NCDC' climate
     for 'NOAA' sea ice data, the 'NOAA' severe weather inventory, 'NOAA' Historical
     Observing 'Metadata' Repository ('HOMR') data, 'NOAA' storm data via 'IBTrACS',
     tornado data via the 'NOAA' storm prediction center, and more.
-Version: 0.6.1.9140
+Version: 0.6.1.9143
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Authors@R: c(

diff --git a/R/isd.R b/R/isd.R
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@
 #' takes a bunch of regex to split apart text strings. We hope to speed
 #' this process up in the future. See examples below for different behavior.
 #'
+#' @section Errors:
+#' Note that when you get an error similar to \code{Error: download failed for
+#' ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/1955/011490-99999-1955.gz}, the
+#' file does not exist on NOAA's ftp servers. If your internet is down,
+#' you'll get a different error.
+#'
 #' @examples \dontrun{
 #' # Get station table
 #' (stations <- isd_stations())

diff --git a/man/isd.Rd b/man/isd.Rd