FedData 3.0.1

Updated get_nlcd() to read CRS data correctly Issue #91 by requiring rgdal be installed.
Changed Daymet tempo codes Issue #92

FedData 3.0.0

All get_*() functions now return sf or raster objects.
Changed SDA_query() to soils_query() to avoid namespace masking with SoilDB.
Added get_nass_cdl() to retrieve the NASS Cropland Data Layer
Updated get_daymet() to pull from ORNL WCS, and fixed bug in Issue #49
Fixed issue where soils_query() was only returning first SSURGO study area (Issue #51)
Fixed issue where date parsing was USA-specific by leveraging lubridate::parse_date_time (Issue #61)
get_ssurgo() now saves in the GeoPackage file format
get_nhd() now access ESRI web services. Users can optionally get data from NHDPlus.
get_nlcd() now provides data in native CRS (CONUS Albers), rather than web-mercator (Issue #77) by pulling from self-hosted Cloud-Optimized GeoTiffs.
Issue #88 identified an issue with GDAL versions prior GDAL 3 reading COGs using the vsicurl functionality in GDAL. Accordingly, FedData3 requires GDAL >= 3.0.0.
Added Mesa Verde National Park as exemplar region, and removed use of paleocar package.
get_ned() now pulls from USGS NED Cloud-Optimized GeoTiffs available at https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=StagedProducts/Elevation/.

Removing many internet resource tests from CRAN, to satisfy: ‘Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available (and not give a check warning nor error).’

Built-in access to the Soils Data Analysis query service to remove dependency on soilDB package.

Fixed issue (#41) that occurs when mosaicking NLCD tiles that are not cropped. When they aren’t cropped, the NLCD data is never read into memory, and the temporary file that the raster was created from gets destroyed. Solution: Force NLCD data into memory prior to mosaicking.
Added (non-CRAN) test for issue #41

SSURGO fixed test where supplying an unavailable survey area now returns NULL instead of an error.
SSURGO zip directory encoding changes as of late October 2017 forced changes in the FedData:::get_ssurgo_study_area function.
Fixed issue where NHD template wouldn’t load because they added a jpeg preview to the directory.

DAYMET functions now do not operate in parallel. This was breaking the download functions.
Final update for version 2 of FedData.
Accepted to ROpenSci! Migrating to the ROpenSci organization on GitHub.

writeOGR for SSURGO and NHD were failing on Windows when the extraction.dir included a trailing slash. Paths are now normalized to remove the trailing slash.

Updated the get_ned function to provide more useful errors and warnings when downloads are unsuccessful.

Added pkgdown site.
SSURGO functions (e.g., get_ssurgo) now doesn’t bomb on large (> 1 billion sq meter) requests. Now, the area of interest is broken into smaller chunks to build the download list.