Description Usage Arguments Details Value References
View source: R/wrapper_functions.R
This function will return a (fairly large) data frame. If you are going
to be using this data for future analysis, you can store the results in a CSV file
by setting opt_write_to_file
to be TRUE
1 2 3 4 5 6 | getWeatherForDate(station_id, start_date, end_date = NULL,
station_type = "airportCode", opt_detailed = FALSE,
opt_write_to_file = FALSE, opt_temperature_columns = TRUE,
opt_all_columns = FALSE, opt_custom_columns = FALSE,
custom_columns = NULL, opt_verbose = FALSE, daily_min = FALSE,
daily_max = FALSE)
|
station_id |
is a valid 3- or 4-letter Airport code or a valid Weather Station ID (example: "BUF", "ORD", "VABB" for Mumbai). Valid Weather Station "id" values: "KFLMIAMI75" or "IMOSCOWO2" You can look these up at wunderground.com |
start_date |
string representing a date in the past ("YYYY-MM-DD", all numeric) |
end_date |
If an interval is to be specified, end_date
is a string representing a date in the past ("YYYY-MM-DD", all numeric)
and greater than the |
station_type |
= "airportCode" (3- or 4-letter airport code) or "ID" (Wx call Sign) |
opt_detailed |
Boolen flag to indicate if detailed records for the station are desired. (default FALSE). By default only one records per date is returned. |
opt_write_to_file |
If TRUE, the resulting dataframe will be stored in a CSV file. Default is FALSE |
opt_temperature_columns |
Boolen flag to indicate only Temperature data is to be returned (default TRUE) |
opt_all_columns |
Boolen flag to indicate whether all available data is to be returned (default FALSE) |
opt_custom_columns |
Boolen flag to indicate if only a user-specified set of columns are to be returned. (default FALSE)
If TRUE, then the desired columns must be specified via |
custom_columns |
Vector of integers specified by the user to indicate which columns to fetch.
The Date column is always returned as the first column. The
column numbers specfied in |
opt_verbose |
Boolean flag to indicate if verbose output is desired |
daily_min |
A boolean indicating if only the Minimum Temperatures are desired |
daily_max |
A boolean indicating if only the Maximum Temperatures are desired |
For each day in the date range, this function fetches Weather Data.
Internally, it makes multiple calls to getDetailedWeather
.
A data frame with each row containing:
Date and Time stamp (for each date specified)
Temperature and/or other weather columns sought
For a list of valid Weather Stations, try this format http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/ListStations.asp?selectedCountry=United+States and replace with your country of interest
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