icesDatras 1.4.0 (2022-02-10)

• added functions getCPUEAge, getCPUELength, getFlexFile, getLTassessment
• fixed bug in catch weights and updated documentation

icesDatras 1.3-0 (2019-03-12)

• Added function getIndices() to get age based indices of abundance by species, survey and year.
• Made all examples ‘dontrun’ as taking a while due to slow response time of web server.
• Added function getIndices() to get age based indices of abundance by species, survey and year.
• Made all examples ‘dontrun’ as taking a while due to slow response time of web server

icesDatras 1.2-0 (2017-01-10)

• removed dependency on XML and RCurl by using text regex and download.file -> scan. If download.file fails then url() is used to make the connection.

icesDatras 1.1-1 (2016-09-14)

• Improved XML parsing, exploiting structure of data and that we can delete XML nodes once read.

• Added function to extract catch weigthts by species and haul.

icesDatras 1.1-0 (2016-08-17)

• New argument ‘surveys’ in function getDatrasDataOverview() allows faster overviews for one or few surveys.
• Improved XML parsing, so both leading and trailing white space is removed.
• Improved XML parsing, so -9 and "" is converted to NA.
• Improved XML parsing, so data frame columns are automatically coerced to the appropriate storage mode (character, numeric, integer).

icesDatras 1.0-3 (2016-08-09)

• Fixed bug where code assumed stringsAsFactors = FALSE by default.
• Remove trailing white space from HHdata table entries.
• Added function getDATRAS() from retired package rICES to extract multiple years and quarters.

icesDatras 1.0-0 (2016-08-04)

• Initial release.