get_ag_bulletin: Get BOM agriculture bulletin information for select stations

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

View source: R/get_ag_bulletin.R

Description

Fetch the BOM agricultural bulletin information and return it in a data frame

Usage

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Arguments

state

Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via agrep is done. Defaults to “AUS” returning all state bulletins, see Details for more.

Details

Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using AUS.

ACT

Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)

NSW

New South Wales

NT

Northern Territory

QLD

Queensland

SA

South Australia

TAS

Tasmania

VIC

Victoria

WA

Western Australia

AUS

Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT

Value

A data frame as a data.table object of Australia BOM agricultural bulletin information. For full details of fields and units returned see Appendix 3 in the bomrang vignette, use
vignette("bomrang", package = "bomrang") to view.

Author(s)

Adam H. Sparks, adamhsparks@gmail.com and Paul Melloy paul@melloy.com.au

References

Agricultural observations are retrieved from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data Services Agriculture Bulletins,
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/observations/about-agricultural.shtml

and

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)) Weather Data Services Observation of Rainfall,
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/observations/rain-measure.shtml

Station location and other metadata are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) webpage, Bureau of Meteorology Site Numbers:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/about/site-num.shtml

See Also

parse_ag_bulletin

Examples

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ag_bulletin <- get_ag_bulletin(state = "QLD")
ag_bulletin

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