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rtorf 2026-04-07 (2026-04-07)

rather obscure bug that reversed axis in obs_nc. Added tests add obs_foot_flip

rtorf 2026-04-01 (2026-04-01)

moved repo to atmoschem

rtorf 2026-03-31 (2026-03-31)

Adding adaptative gridding moved URLS to ibarraespinosa

rtorf 2026-03-30 (2026-03-30)

Added Fortran subroutines to grid particles and smooth.

rtorf 2026-03-24 (2026-03-24)

Added Fortran subroutines to grid oparticles and smooth.

rtorf 2026-02-13 (2026-02-13)

Fix documentation for CRAN. Add argument to flip vertically NetCDF in obs_convolve

rtorf 2026-02-01 (2026-02-01)

Fix documentation for CRAN.

rtorf 2026-01-16 (2026-01-16)

Prepare for CRAN. Update DESCRIPTION

rtorf 2026-01-02 (2026-01-02)

fix Removes default units from obs_nc to force user to add them manually.

rtorf 2025-12-11 (2025-12-11)

fix obs_select_sec

rtorf 2025-12-01 (2025-12-01)

Add obs_foot to read, process footprints parallel

rtorf 2025-11-11 (2025-11-11)

fix obs_hysplit_control. It was nor wokring for the last day of the month Added verbose argument.

rtorf 2025-11-03 (2025-11-03)

Add second argument in obs_footname. Deprecated obs_format, since it formatted in obs_hysplit_control Deleted a bunch of legacy code Check code for green flag R CMD check

Add second argument in obs_footname. Deprecated obs_format, since it formatted in obs_hysplit_control Deleted a bunch of legacy code

rtorf 2025-10-17 (2025-10-17)

Add message to show what I'm comparing in obs_convolve Add argument name_var_flux to obs_convolve

rtorf 2025-10-15 (2025-10-15)

Remove need for columns site_code or altitude_final in obs_agg User may need to reorder data

add obs_select_sec to select based on closest time, rather than agg add obs_add_mtime to add matlab time

rtorf 2025-09-25 (2025-09-25)

add normalize mass, grid and tracj

add obs_normalize_dmass remove make_nc, npot needed at the moment. Focus on tracj

rtorf 2025-09-24 (2025-09-24)

Adding more legacy code. Add note about availability of files

rtorf 2025-09-12 (2025-09-12)

• Expand obs_convolve and fix tz, now it is explicit tz = "UTC"

rtorf 2025-09-09 (2025-09-09)

• Add legacy time functions. Many of themm will be removed or replaced with lubridate. The idea is to preserve and improve only the functions to generate NetCDF from PARTICLE.DAT

rtorf 2025-09-08 (2025-09-08)

• Remove former classes. classes may be added in the futre for complex objects, such as data.tables from read from obspack or receptor-ready files.

rtorf 2025-08-28 (2025-08-28)

• Add legacy code obs_julian

rtorf 2025-07-24 (2025-07-24)

• obs_convolve also returns foot

rtorf 2025-07-16 (2025-07-16)

• Big release, add support to read, write NetCDF and convolve footprints with fluxes.

rtorf 2025-07-15 (2025-07-15)

• Add obs_nc to read and create NetCDF.
• add text (not done yet): obs_convolve

rtorf 2025-06-13 (2025-06-13)

• metformat for obs_hysplit_control is argument.

rtorf 2025-06-04 (2025-06-04)

• Add support for High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)daily files. ( all met files must be daily). changed expected ERA5 file: ERA5_%Y%m%d.ARL

rtorf 2025-06-02 (2025-06-02)

• check for names in df for obs_hysplit_control
• Add option to return time columns in obs_add_time and obs_add_ltime

rtorf 2025-05-28 (2025-05-28)

• fix obs_hysplit_control when use time params instead of df. I needed to declare agl

rtorf 2025-05-20 (2025-05-20)

• Change way obs_hysplit_setup writes. Now instead of cat, uses write. obs_hysplit_ascdata and obs_hysplit_control still use cat.

rtorf 2025-04-28 (2025-04-28)

• Adding era5 to obs_hysplit_control

rtorf 2025-04-09 (2025-04-09)

• Adding documentation for vertical_motion in obs_hysplit_control default 5

rtorf 2025-04-01 (2025-04-01)

• Adding capacity to read co2
• Fix obs_read_nc now add variables with same length of dt

rtorf 2025-03-21 (2025-03-21)

• Update email

rtorf 2025-03-12 (2025-03-12)

• Add argument solar_time solar_time = if(grepl("aircraft", categories)) FALSE else TRUE
• Update vignettes and add one aobut parallel hysplit
• Change name Obspoack to Observations

rtorf 2025-01-31 (2025-01-31)

Add functions to configure hysplit

• obs_hysplit_control
• obs_hysplit_setup
• obs_hysplit_ascdata

rtorf 2024-11-13 (2024-11-13)

• Add obs_read_nc_att to read global attributes

rtorf 2024-10-31 (2024-10-31)

• Add stop when missing arguments in obs_info2id

rtorf 2024-10-07 (2024-10-07)

• Fix obs_footname when inout time components instead of POSICxt.

rtorf 2024-09-23 (2024-09-23)

• Started adding some legacy code. This means that rtorf can be upgraded to 1.0.0 and adding newer legacy code will be 1.0.x.

rtorf 2024-08-26 (2024-08-26)

• Add articles for each dataid, running examples in examples/, articles in vignettes

rtorf 2024-08-19 (2024-08-19)

• remove cols argument to obs_read_nc to avoid reading all columns by default
• add att logical argument to add global attributes from NetCDF or not to data.table. Default is F
• Started adding vignettes/articles by dataid

rtorf 2024-07-09 (2024-07-09)

• Add cols argument to obs_read_nc to avoid reading all columns by default

rtorf 2024-04-23 (2024-04-23)

• reformatted obs_table to read df from obs_read
• obs_read now read intake_height, site_longitude and site_latitude

obs_addstime return a POSIXct vector, (fix #6 )

rtorf 2024-03-05 (2024-03-05)

• order summary index by name (obs_summary)

• Rename robspack to rtorf.
• Prepare to submit to JOSS and https://github.com/ibarraespinosa.

rtorf 2023-11-02 (2023-11-02)

• Adding solar time in NetCDF.

rtorf 2023-09-13 (2023-09-13)

• Adding support for NetCDF.
• obs_index detect file extension

rtorf 2023-04-18 (2023-04-18)

• rename package to robspack
• rename obs_write to obs_write_csvy
• add rscripts in GitHub repo

rtorf 2023-04-04 (2023-04-04)

• add obs_table, to summarize ObsPack

rtorf 2023-03-22 (2023-03-22)

• add obs_format to format data
• add obs_plot
• Change method to plot invfiles, based on obs_plot
• Rename obs_index to obs_summary

rtorf 2023-02-01 (2023-02-01)

• Deprecate some functions

rtorf 2023-01-19 (2023-01-19)

• add obs_meta, which creates a data.table based on metadata

rtorf 2022-10-03 (2022-10-03)

• Reverse obs_footname, from obs_trunc to sprintf
• add round (x, 4) into lat lon obs_footname to match receptors.
• Adding institution and Scale into obs_invfiles

rtorf 2022-08-29 (2022-08-29)

• add by lab_1_abbr, dataset_calibration_scale into obs_add, assuming site_code matches scale and lab_1

• add obs_footname
• add obs_invfiles.
• add dataset_calibration_scale into obs_read

rtorf 2022-08-25 (2022-08-25)

• Prepare submission to JOSS
• obs_index now does not write temporal file for index, when out argument is missing.

rtorf 2022-08-11 (2022-08-11)

• add function obs_trunc and used inside obs_find_receptors

rtorf 2022-08-01 (2022-08-01)

• rename write_meta to obs_write
• obs_find_receptors: change
  sprintf(lon, fmt = '%7.4f') to sprintf(lon, fmt = '%07.4f') to formatC(lon, digits = 4, width = 8, format = "f", flag = "0")

rtorf 2022-07-19 (2022-07-19)

• Add obs_find_receptors

rtorf 2022-07-14 (2022-07-14)

• Add write_meta which generates a CSVY file

rtorf 2022-07-12 (2022-07-12)

• add obs_addltime to return a data.table with local time columns

rtorf 2022-07-06 (2022-07-06)

• changed all functions to obs_*
• add obs_agg to aggregate columns by time interval
• imported lubridate to calculate decimal date
• obs_agg also add some character vars

rtorf 2022-07-04 (2022-07-04)

• add addtime_obs into read_obs
• add option into addtime_obs to find intervals time data into desired frequency eg. 20, using coumn 20
• Add name of file as variable in read_obs
• add option in addtime_obs to aggregate numeric by mean

rtorf 2022-06-29 (2022-06-29)

• add variable n into index and read_obs
• add verbose to avoid mistakes in read_obs
• add add_zero, c(1, 10) -> c("01", "10")
• addtime_obs add column dif_time (end - start)

rtorf 2022-06-24 (2022-06-24)

• Create robspackfilter

rtorf 2.4.0

Adding more legacy code. Add note about availability of files