NEWS

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airportr 0.2.2

Bug Fixes

• Critical fix: Restored explicit data() calls to fix reverse dependency compatibility
  • Functions called via :: from other packages were failing with "object 'airports' not found"
  • Affected the 'footprint' package on CRAN
  • All exported functions now explicitly load the airports dataset

airportr 0.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed invalid URLs for CRAN submission
  • Updated ODbL license URL (301 redirect fix)
  • Updated OpenFlights data URL (404 fix)

airportr 0.2.0

Major Improvements

• Modernized CI/CD infrastructure - replaced Travis CI with GitHub Actions
• Significantly expanded test coverage (3 tests → 59 tests)
• Updated airport data from OpenFlights (as of 2025-11-09)
• Increased minimum R version requirement to R >= 4.0.0
• Updated roxygen2 to 7.3.2

Code Quality

• Refactored repetitive code patterns into helper functions
• Removed redundant data() calls throughout codebase
• Extracted magic numbers into named constants for clarity
• Improved error handling and input validation
• Added comprehensive input validation for coordinate functions

Infrastructure

• Added GitHub Actions workflows for R-CMD-check, test coverage, and pkgdown deployment
• Moved data preparation script to standard data-raw/ directory
• Updated package documentation to modern roxygen2 standards
• Fixed author role in DESCRIPTION (added "aut")
• Updated README with new CI badges

airportr 0.1.4

• Added more new airports
• Added a pkgdown documentation website

airportr 0.1.3 (2019-10-09)

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added 514 new airports including 78 in the United States, 61 in China, 37 in Australia, and 34 in Greenland of all places.
• Added ability to limit airport lookups by any ISO country code in addition to country name. Thanks to @danim25 for the suggestion.