Changes in version 0.2.5                        

Minor release: the README and vignettes were revised.

  - rain_stations — the frist_year column was renamed to first_year.

                 Changes in version 0.2.0 (2026-08-19)                  

This release adds a new function, replaces the existing datasets with
cleaner and more concise versions, and fixes several bugs in downloading
data and building the INMET dataset.

New function

  - nearest_stations() — computes the distances between municipalities
    and INMET stations and returns the stations closest to each
    municipality.

Datasets

  - inmet_stations — a revised version of rain_stations. The older
    dataset listed INMET stations by year from 2000 to 2024, so the same
    station appeared many times. The new version uses the most recent
    station information (through 2026) and has one row per station.
  - mun_stations — mun_stations_distance contains
    municipality-to-station distances for every other year from 2008
    to 2024. The new mun_stations contains the distances computed with
    nearest_stations() and the inmet_stations dataset.
  - municipality — a new dataset with basic information on Brazilian
    municipalities: IBGE and TSE codes, state, and centroid latitude and
    longitude.
  - floods_rs — the id_who column was renamed to code_wmo.

Bugfixes and Quality of Life

  - Fixed: blank CSV files from 2026 caused build_inmet_dataset() to
    fail.
  - Fixed: the data variable had a different type in recent years, which
    produced an inconsistent partitioned dataset in
    build_inmet_dataset() and caused errors in read_inmet().
  - Added the years and partitioning_by parameters to
    build_inmet_dataset().
  - Added a progress bar to the download_inmet() and
    build_inmet_dataset() functions.

                 Changes in version 0.1.0 (2026-08-07)                  

  - Initial CRAN submission.

  - Functions:
    
      - download_inmet() — downloads historical weather station data
        from INMET.
      - build_inmet_dataset() — converts raw CSV files into partitioned
        Arrow/Parquet datasets.
      - read_inmet() — queries large INMET datasets efficiently.
      - kriging_inmet() — performs ordinary kriging interpolation.