soilDB 2.5.8

Updates since last CRAN release on 2020-01-29.

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soilDB 2.5.8 (2020-10-20)

• fetchNASIS / soilDB:::.rockFragmentSieve now uses fragment RV, soilDB:::.sieve uses < operator (#1)
• fetchKSSL(..., returnMorphologicData=TRUE) now returns redoximorphic features by horizon
• new function taxaExtent returns 800m gridded taxonomic grids for CONUS
• seriesExtent can now return 800m gridded series extents for CONUS
• SDA_spatialQuery can now retrieve SSURGO and STATSGO geometry c/o dschlaep (#141)
• new import: data.table; beginning to implement data.table-aware methods

soilDB 2.5.7 (2020-09-03)

• add fetchGDB for querying tabular data from SSURGO/gNATSGO/STATSGO File Geodatabases
• add get_NOAA_GHCND() and get_NOAA_stations_nearXY() for batch queries of NOAA Daily Climate Data (requires free API token)
• bug fix for fetchSDA_spatial with chunk.size > 1 resulting in duplicate data in result
• major improvements to fetchSDA_spatial to handle queries that exceed JSON Serialization Limit
• add fetchSoilGrids for point data queries to SoilGrids v2 API with SoilProfileCollection output

soilDB 2.5.6 (2020-06-16)

• bug fixes in fetchKSSL related to vectorization, all arguments vectorized except for bbox
• KSSL_VG_model output cleaned-up, now returns phi -> theta function

soilDB 2.5.3 (2020-03-22)

• fetchKSSL is now fully vectorized and builds on new SoilWeb JSON API

soilDB 2.5.2 (2020-02-05)

• add get_concentrations_from_NASIS_db() and get_phfmp_from_NASIS_db() for fetching Pedon Horizon Concentrations and Field Measured Properties from NASIS local database