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Thanks @jh0ker, and interestinglyl, the former routine only calculated distances between unique pairs, and that was the only bit which i did not carry across to the new one. I...

Not wrong issue reference on those comments, which should have been #89 and not here

@jh0ker I've got a PR in #92 with C++ code to only calculate transfers between unique pairs. #### The bad news In a pretty standard-size test feed of just over...

I'm happy to formulate an email to the totally generic address they put there (`weatherquestions@bom` -really?) Their statements are really very obstructive: > Web or screen scraping is the act...

Yes @HughParsonage they are seriously suggesting that should be the only method for anybody other than direct employees of da BoM. The problem is they have no system for authorized...

I can fix the bulletin function to work in current form by switching to FTP, and should be able to find some time to do that next week. But that's...

Thanks @gutzbenj, that would be a great idea, but unfortunately the BoM uses a Kisters database only for the **water** data. This `bomrang` package is about the weather data, which...

No worries @adamhsparks - I've had a look at the code, and it'll all be easy to port over to pure R if this turns out to be a workable...

Thanks @trickypr, that may indeed work, but we'd still be violating the BoMs terms of usage which forbid "web scraping". My guess is we'll have to wait for [some kind...

Yeah, great idea. It shall be done. Thank you!