preparing CRAN release

DESCRIPTION

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 Package: rdwd
 Title: Select and Download Climate Data from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)
-Version: 1.5.33
+Version: 1.6.0
 Date: 2022-05-30
 Depends: R(>= 2.10)
 Imports: berryFunctions (>= 1.21.11), pbapply

NEWS

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+Version 1.6.0 (2022-05-30)
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+new functions
+
+- `plotDWD`
+- `locdir` (will replace fixed "DWDdata" folder in `dataDWD`)
+- `readDWD.deriv`
+- `readDWD.rklim`
+- `readDWD.pdf`
+- `validFileTypes` (charstring vector)
+
+improvements
+
+- `selectDWD`: is completely rewritten and now vectorizes expandingly
+- reading functions: use latin1 encoding
+- `dataDWD`: new argument *method*, new default for *overwrite*
+- several improvements for input checks, messages, tests and documentation
+- `metaInfo`: accepts custom index
+- `readDWD.radar`: new argument *dividebyten* 
+- `readDWD.grib2`: new argument *pack* 
+- website: new use case daily radar files
+
+
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+
 Version 1.5.0 (2021-04-08)
 
 API changes:

cran-comments.md

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+On some test platforms I see installed size is 5.4 Mb.
+This stems from the DWD (german weather service) expanding the available datasets yet again.
+The issue is known but could not be resolved in this CRAN release.
+https://github.com/brry/rdwd/issues/35
+I hope to find a solution by the next release and would greatly appreciate if you could accept it this time.