ropensci / weathercan

R package for downloading weather data from Environment and Climate Change Canada
https://docs.ropensci.org/weathercan
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Attempt to remove sp dependency #45

Closed boshek closed 6 years ago

boshek commented 6 years ago

The overhead for these two lines is pretty significant:

https://github.com/steffilazerte/weathercan/blob/a5948a687df58b65657a3b0e61a813812d4095d3/R/stations.R#L190-L191

Particularly for mac and linux this requires installing quite a lot of other material. We should try to remove it.

steffilazerte commented 6 years ago

That's a very good point. Will have to look into it.