getProfileFromUrl: Get Data for an Argo Float Profile
In argoFloats: Analysis of Oceanographic Argo Floats

getProfileFromUrl

R Documentation

Get Data for an Argo Float Profile

Description

Get Data for an Argo Float Profile

Usage

getProfileFromUrl(
  url = NULL,
  destdir = argoDefaultDestdir(),
  destfile = NULL,
  age = argoDefaultProfileAge(),
  retries = 3,
  quiet = FALSE,
  debug = 0
)

Arguments

`url`	character value giving the URL for a NetCDF file containing an particular profile of a particular Argo float.
`destdir`	character value indicating the directory in which to store downloaded files. The default value is to compute this using `argoDefaultDestdir()`, which returns `⁠~/data/argo⁠` by default, although it also provides ways to set other values using `options()`. Set `destdir=NULL` if `destfile` is a filename with full path information. File clutter is reduced by creating a top-level directory called `data`, with subdirectories for various file types; see “Examples”.
`destfile`	optional character value that specifies the name to be used for the downloaded file. If this is not specified, then a name is determined from the value of `url`.
`age`	a numerical value indicating a time interval, in days. If the file to be downloaded from the server already exists locally, and was created is less than `age` days in the past, it will not be downloaded. The default, `argoDefaultProfileAge()`, is one year. Setting `age=0` will force a download.
`retries`	integer telling how many times to retry a download, if the first attempt fails.
`quiet`	logical value; use `FALSE` to show more verbose information when downloading files. (Even if `quiet` is TRUE, problems will still be reported.)
`debug`	integer value indicating level of debugging. If this is less than 1, no debugging is done. Otherwise, some functions will print debugging information. If a function call fails, the first step should be to rerun the function with `debug=1`, to see if the output suggests a problem in the call.