Summary

• What does this package do? (explain in 50 words or less):
  hydroscoper is an interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Hydroscope. It provides functions to: a) Transform the available tables and data sets into tidy data frames. b) Transliterate the Greek Unicode text to Latin. c) Translate various Greek terms to English.

• Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:

Package: hydroscoper
Type: Package
Title: Interface to Hydroscope
Version: 0.2.1
Authors@R: person("Konstantinos", "Vantas", role = c("aut", "cre"),
  email = "kon.vantas@gmail.com",
  comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6387-8791"))
Maintainer: Konstantinos Vantas <kon.vantas@gmail.com>
Description: R interface to the  Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and 
    Meteorological Information <http://www.hydroscope.gr/>. It 
    covers Hydroscope's data sources and provides functions to transliterate, 
    translate and download them into tidy dataframes (tibbles).
URL: https://github.com/kvantas/hydroscoper
BugReports: https://github.com/kvantas/hydroscoper/issues             
Depends: R (>= 3.4.0)
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
Imports: stringi (>= 1.1.6),
    stringr (>= 1.2), 
    tibble(>= 1.4.1),
    readr (>= 1.1.1),
    jsonlite (>= 1.5),
Suggests: plyr (>= 1.8.4),
    ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
    knitr (>= 1.17),
    rmarkdown (>= 1.8),
    testthat (>= 1.0.2),
    ggmap (>= 2.6.1)
VignetteBuilder: knitr

• URL for the package (the development repository, not a stylized html page):
  https://github.com/kvantas/hydroscoper

• Please indicate which category or categories from our package fit policies this package falls under *and why(? (e.g., data retrieval, reproducibility. If you are unsure, we suggest you make a pre-submission inquiry.):
  data retrieval, because the package parses and download data from a national data-bank.

•   Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?  
  a) Engineers for the development of water resources and environmental studies in Greece, b) scientists that work with hydrological and meteorological data from Hydroscope and c) Greek organizations to submit data and reports to the European Union for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive.

• Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does
  yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category?
  No other package exists.

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