wrcc_identifyMonitorType: Identify WRCC monitor type

In PWFSLSmoke: Utilities for Working with Air Quality Monitoring Data

Description

Examine the column names of the incoming character vector to identify different types of monitor data provided by WRCC.

The return is a list includes everything needed to identify and parse the raw data using readr::read_tsv():

• monitorType – identification string

• rawNames – column names from the data (including special characters)

• columnNames – assigned column names (special characters repaced with '.')

• columnTypes – column type string for use with readr::read_csv()

The monitorType will be one of:

• "WRCC_TYPE1" – ???

• "WRCC_TYPE2" – ???

• "UNKOWN" – ???

Usage

wrcc_identifyMonitorType(fileString)

Arguments

fileString

character string containing WRCC data

Value

List including monitorType, rawNames, columnNames and columnTypes.

References

WRCC Fire Cache Smoke Monitor Archive

Examples

## Not run: 
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

fileString <- wrcc_downloadData(20160701, 20160930, unitID='1307')
monitorTypeList <- wrcc_identifyMonitorType(fileString)

}, silent = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

PWFSLSmoke documentation built on Nov. 23, 2021, 5:06 p.m.