Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

rfaR 0.5.1

Summary

Fixes a bug reported by a tester where hydrograph_setup() produced NA for obs_vol when the input CSV contained trailing empty rows — a common artifact of read.csv() on Excel-exported files.

Root cause

read.csv() reads the full padded row range from Excel exports, producing trailing rows with NA in the Flow column and "" in Date/Time. These propagated through zoo::rollmeanr() as NA, poisoning obs_vol, and broke the routing extension’s time sequence.

Fix

Truncate each input hydrograph at the last row with a valid (non-NA) flow value. Interior NAs are preserved so malformed inputs fail loudly downstream, rather than being silently dropped. Emits a cli::cli_inform per hydrograph noting how many trailing rows were dropped.

Testing

Added tests/testthat/test-hydrograph_setup.R with two tests:

1. Confirms obs_vol is finite when input has trailing empty rows, and matches the result from clean input
2. Confirms the cli_inform message fires with the correct row count

Both pass locally under devtools::test() and devtools::check().

rfaR 0.5.0

• Created news file. This feels like a big step

Major Changes

• Added validation vignettes and user guide/manual.

Bug Fixes

• There will be many blind spots and bugs. All questions, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome!