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#   DESCRIPTION

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 To get started please proceed [here](./articles/ClimDatDownloadR.html). 
 
 
+_This R-package was developed as a student project for the masters programm Geography at the Universität Hamburg, Germany._
 
+## Update 09.03.2021
+As of today a new alpha version is released. 
+If you want to test the ClimDatDownloadR-package please feel free to install the package via
 
-_This R-package was developed as a student project for the masters programm Geography at the Universität Hamburg, Germany._
+`install.packages("https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/helgejentsch/climdatdownloadr/-/archive/master/climdatdownloadr-master.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")`
+
+and if you need the dependencies via 
+
+`install.packages(c("gdalUtils", "httr", "ncdf4", "qpdf", "raster", "RCurl", "RefManageR", "rgdal", "stringr", "sf", "sp", "svMisc", "utils"), dependencies = TRUE)`
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+
+I would appreciate your feedback and possible bug reports. 
+If you find anything, please send an email to [helge.marc.ole.jentsch@uni-hamburg.de](<mailto:helge.marc.ole.jentsch@uni-hamburg.de>)
+
+Thank you very much for using ClimDatDownloadR!