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resourcecode 0.5.5 (2026-08-03)

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.

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.

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).

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).

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

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/").

Initial version with very crude functionalities