newa_nrcc: Retrieve data from NEWA at Cornell University

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Description

Retrieve Weather data from the Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA) at Cornell University.

Usage

newa_nrcc(
  client,
  year,
  month,
  station,
  base = "http://newa.nrcc.cornell.edu/newaLister",
  interval = "hly",
  sleep = 6,
  table_id = "#dtable",
  path = getwd(),
  save_file = TRUE
)

Arguments

client	RSelenium client.
year	Numeric value with the year.
month	Numeric value with the month.
station	String with the station abbreviation. Check the http://newa.cornell.edu/index.php?page=station-pages for a list.
base	Base URL (default: http://newa.nrcc.cornell.edu/newaLister).
interval	String with data interval (default: hly, hourly).
sleep	Numeric value with the number of seconds to wait for the page to load the results (default: 6 seconds).
table_id	String with the unique HTML ID assigned to the table containing the data (default: #dtable)
path	String with path to location where CSV files should be stored (default: getwd()).
save_file	Boolean flag to indicate whether or not the output should be stored as a CSV file.

Value

Tibble with the data retrieved from the server.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Create RSelenium session
rD <- RSelenium::rsDriver(browser = "firefox", port = 4544L, verbose = FALSE)
# Retrieve data for the Geneva (Bejo) station on 2020/12
scrappy::newa_nrcc(rD$client, 2020, 12, "gbe")
# Stop server
rD$server$stop()

## End(Not run)

scrappy documentation built on Jan. 10, 2021, 6:09 p.m.