make_metdes: Creation of the 'metdes' dataset, made of descriptive...

In metsyn: Interface with the Meteo France Synop Data API

Description

The function make_metdes creates the metdes dataset, which contains descriptive information on the metsyn dataset.

The dataset contains the following columns:

• Short_Name: short name of the variable, in French;

• Long_name_French: name of the variable, in French;

• Long_Name_English: currently not provided yet;

• Type: type of the variable (one of character, numeric, integer);

• Unit: physical unit of the variable.

Usage

make_metdes(path = ".", save_it = FALSE)

Arguments

path	character. Data once created are saved in the folder file.path(path, "data").
save_it	logical. If TRUE, the result is saved as an .RData file in the folder file.path(path, "data").

Value

Returns invisibly the tibble created, with 5 columns and 59 rows.

Note

This dataset is distributed by Meteo France under the terms of the Open Licence 1.0, provided by Etalab and designed to be compatible with the "Creative Commons Attribution 2.0" (CC-BY 2.0) licence of Creative Commons. Etalab is the task force under the French Prime Minister's authority leading Open Government Data policy for France.

Source

Meteo France, see here.

See Also

metsyn for the dataset containing Meteo France Synop data; metsta for the dataset on the meteorological stations involved.

Examples

## Not run: 
make_metdes(save_it = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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