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FlowScreen 2.0

Released: 2025-06-04

This release introduces major enhancements to the FlowScreen package, improving data compatibility, usability, and analytical capabilities for hydrometric data screening.

New Features

• Expanded Data Compatibility:
  • Support for new data sources: ROBIN (Reference Observatory of Basins) and GRDC (Global Runoff Data Centre).
  • Automatic metadata extraction from input files.
• Custom Metadata and Plot Titles:
  • Users can define custom station names and metadata fields.
  • New set.plot.titles() function allows flexible title formatting.
• Data Completeness Tools:
  • missingness() function: Visualizes and summarizes missing, partial, and complete years.
  • check_completeness() function: Evaluates whether a dataset meets user-defined completeness criteria.

Improvements

• Simplified reading of non-standard CSV files with flexible column naming.
• Enhanced default settings and plot customization options.
• Improved help files and documentation for better user guidance.

Other Enhancements

• Improved support for screening individual metrics.
• Better handling of incomplete years and data quality flags.
• Sample datasets included for WSC, USGS, ROBIN, and GRDC.

For more information, visit the CRAN page: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/FlowScreen/index.html

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.