global_search: global_search

In rerddap: General Purpose Client for 'ERDDAP™' Servers

global_search

Description

Search for ERDDAP™ tabledap or griddap datasets from a list of ERDDAP™ servers based on search terms.

Usage

global_search(query, server_list, which_service)

Arguments

query	(character) Search terms
server_list	(list of character) List of ERDDAP™ servers to search
which_service	(character) One of tabledep or griddap.

Details

Uses the 'reddap' function ed_search() to search over the list of servers

Value

If successful a dataframe wih columns:

• title - the dataset title

• dataset_id - the datasetid on that ERDDAP server

• url - base url of dataset ERDDAP server

if urls are valid, no match is found, will return no match found else returns error message

See Also

HttpClient

Examples

# get list of servers know by
# https://irishmarineinstitute.github.io/awesome-erddap
# e_servers <- servers()$url
# select a couple to search
# e_servers <- e_servers[c(1, 40)]
# to meet CRAN time limits will only search 1 place
e_servers <- "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/"
test_query <- 'NOAA/NCDC Blended Monthly'
query_results <- global_search(test_query, e_servers, "griddap")

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