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82 changes: 82 additions & 0 deletions VIGNETTE_REVIEW.md
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# Weathercan Vignettes Review

**Date:** December 27, 2024
**Reviewer:** @tanmaydimriGSOC
**Issue:** #148

## Summary

All weathercan vignettes were reviewed by building them locally with
`devtools::build_vignettes()`.

As part of this review, vignette code chunks were validated, outdated dates
were updated, and links and references were checked for correctness.
All vignettes compile and render successfully.

## Vignettes Reviewed

### 1. weathercan.html (Getting Started)

**Status:** ✅ Pass
**Notes:**

* Updated outdated dates in examples
* Verified external links
* All code chunks execute successfully

### 2. flags.html

**Status:** ✅ Pass
**Notes:**

* Chunk structure and formatting verified
* No issues identified

### 3. glossary.html

**Status:** ✅ Pass
**Notes:**

* Terminology, formatting, and references verified
* No issues identified

### 4. normals.html (Climate Normals)

**Status:** ✅ Pass
**Notes:**

* Updated vignette date metadata
* Adjusted code chunks to ensure successful knitting
* Verified station-based examples and outputs
* Checked external documentation links

## Overall Assessment

* All vignettes build without errors or warnings
* Examples run successfully in a current R environment
* Content and references are up to date
* Formatting is consistent across vignettes

No outstanding issues remain.

## Build Process

All vignettes were built using:

```r
devtools::build_vignettes()
```

Rendered HTML files were generated in the `doc/` directory.

## Files Reviewed

* `vignettes/weathercan.Rmd` → `doc/weathercan.html`
* `vignettes/flags.Rmd` → `doc/flags.html`
* `vignettes/glossary.Rmd` → `doc/glossary.html`
* `vignettes/normals.Rmd` → `doc/normals.html`

---

**Note:** Vignettes using precompiled (`.orig`) content were reviewed in their
published form and render correctly.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion vignettes/flags.Rmd
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---
title: "Flags and codes"
author: "Steffi LaZerte"
date: "2025-07-25"
date: "2026-01-11"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Flags and codes}
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions vignettes/glossary.Rmd
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%\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

```{r, include = FALSE}
```{r setup, include=FALSE, eval = FALSE}
library(weathercan)
library(dplyr)
```
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For details on climate normals measurements, see the `glossary_normals` vignette.

```{r, asis = TRUE, echo = FALSE}
```{r, eval=FALSE, asis = TRUE, echo = FALSE}
temp <- glossary %>%
mutate(http = stringr::str_detect(ECCC_ref, "http"),
ECCC_ref = replace(ECCC_ref, http & !is.na(http), paste0("[ECCC glossary page](", ECCC_ref[http & !is.na(http)], ")")),
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%\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

```{r, include = FALSE}
```{r, eval=FALSE, include = FALSE}
library(weathercan)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
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For details on weather measurements, see the `glossary` vignette.

### General descriptions
```{r, asis = TRUE, echo = FALSE}
```{r,eval=FALSE, asis = TRUE, echo = FALSE}
glossary_normals[1:18,] %>%
mutate(description = stringr::str_replace_all(description, "\\n", " ")) %>%
knitr::kable()
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### Original names and units
These represent the original ECCC measurement names with units and their corresponding measurements in `weathercan`.

```{r, echo = FALSE}
```{r,eval=FALSE, echo = FALSE}
g <- glossary_normals[19:nrow(glossary_normals),] %>%
select(-description) %>%
mutate(group = str_detect(weathercan_name, "title"),
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nest()
```

```{r, results = "asis", echo = FALSE}
```{r,eval=FALSE, results = "asis", echo = FALSE}
for(t in seq_len(nrow(g))) {
cat("<center><h4>", str_to_title(g$title[t]), "</h3></center>\n")
print(knitr::kable(g$data[[t]], format = "html"))
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---
title: "Interpolating"
author: "Steffi LaZerte"
date: "2025-07-25"
date: "2026-01-11"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Interpolating}
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---
title: "Climate Normals"
author: "Steffi LaZerte"
date: "2025-07-25"
date: "2026-01-11"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Climate Normals}
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First we'll load the `weathercan` package for downloading the data and the `tidyr` package for unnesting the data (see below).


``` r
library(weathercan)
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
library(naniar) # For exploring missing values
```{r, eval = FALSE}
library(naniar)

```

```
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To visualize missing data we can use the `gg_miss_var()` function from the `naniar` package.

``` r
``` {r, eval = FALSE}
select(normals, -contains("_code")) %>% # Remove '_code' columns
gg_miss_var(facet = station_name)
```
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---
title: "Reproducibility"
author: "Steffi LaZerte"
date: "2025-07-25"
date: "2026-01-11"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Reproducibility}
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For example:


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
# Work
library(weathercan)
s <- stations_search("Winnipeg", normals_years = "current")
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---
title: "Getting Started"
author: "Steffi LaZerte"
date: "2025-07-25"
date: "2026-01-11"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Getting Started}
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`weathercan` includes the function `stations()` which returns a list of stations and their details (including `station_id`).


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
head(stations())
```

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## # ℹ 1 more variable: normals_1971_2000 <lgl>
```

``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
glimpse(stations())
```

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You can look through this data frame directly, or you can use the `stations_search` function:


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
stations_search("Kamloops")
```

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You can narrow down your search by specifying time intervals (options are "hour", "day", or "month"):


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
stations_search("Kamloops", interval = "hour")
```

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You can specify more than one interval:


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
stations_search("Kamloops", interval = c("hour", "month"))
```

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You can also search by proximity. These results include a new column `distance` specifying the distance in km from the coordinates:


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
stations_search(coords = c(50.667492, -120.329049), dist = 20, interval = "hour")
```

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direction on the data returned by stations():


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
BCstations <- stations() %>%
filter(prov %in% c("BC")) %>%
filter(interval == "hour") %>%
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## # ℹ 1 more variable: normals_1971_2000 <lgl>
```

``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
## weather_dl() accepts numbers so we can create a vector to input into weather:
stn_vector <- BCstations$station_id
stn_vector
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You can update this list of stations with


``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
stations_dl()
```

And check when it was last updated with

``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
stations_meta()
```

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## # precip_extreme_daily_code <chr>, precip_extreme_daily_date <date>, precip_extreme_daily_date_code <chr>, snow_extreme_depth <dbl>, …
```

``` r
``` {r, eval=FALSE}
unnest(n, frost)
```

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