Release rnoaa v0.9.0 · ropensci/rnoaa

gains sea_ice_tabular() function for fetching tabular .csv sea ice files instead of using the shp files in sea_ice() (#194)
seaice() fxn name has changed to sea_ice() (#313)
sea_ice() gains option to fetch GeoTIFF format data in addition to shp files (#219) (#313)
gains new function lcd_cleanup() - takes output of call to lcd(), parsing additional columns that contain comma separated strings (#283)

update README to link to ncdf4 pkg instead of ncdf pkg, and a note about which functions in rnoaa use ncdf4 (b/c ncdf4 is in Suggests) (#299) thanks @denrou
now using markdown docs (#301)
update isd() docs to highlight that cached files downloaded with the fxn will be used until deleted by the user! See ?isd docs for details (#205)
lat/lon param definition in gefs only mentioned longitude, now both vars discussed (#317) (#318)
improve docs for ncdc() regarding units, and in readme and vignette as well (#265) (#315) from @amoeba

fix bug in cpc_prcp(): should have allowed dates back to 1948, but only allowed back to 1979 (#300)
fix to buoy() fxn: datasets that did not have lat/lon variables were failing to be parsed by the fxn; now when lat/lon vars missing, we just give. back ncdf4 object for the user to deal with themselves (#303) (#304)
fix to gefs(): longitude on the (-180, 180) scale worked but not on the (0,360) scale (#316) (#318) (#319)
fix to tornadoes(): the URL for the data had changed (#311) (#312) thanks @mbjoseph
ncdc() parameters startdate/enddate weren't handling dates as input values; now handle date and character inputs (#307)
fixed issue in ghcnd_stations(); there was an encoding issue with the data returned from NOAA (#305)

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