weatherOz: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources

Provides automated downloading, parsing and formatting of weather data for Australia through API endpoints provided by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) of Western Australia and by the Science and Technology Division of the Queensland Government's Department of Environment and Science (DES). As well as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) of the Australian government precis and coastal forecasts, and downloading and importing radar and satellite imagery files. DPIRD weather data are accessed through public APIs provided by DPIRD, <https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/online-tools/apis/>, providing access to weather station data from the DPIRD weather station network. Australia-wide weather data are based on data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) data and accessed through SILO (Scientific Information for Land Owners) Jeffrey et al. (2001) <doi:10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1>. DPIRD data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence (CC BY 3.0 AU) license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en>. SILO data are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. BOM data are (c) Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology and released under a Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 3.0 licence or Public Access Licence (PAL) as appropriate, see <http://www.bom.gov.au/other/copyright.shtml> for further details.

Package details

AuthorRodrigo Pires [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-6849>), Anna Hepworth [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0204-6347>), Rebecca O'Leary [aut], Jonathan Carroll [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1404-5264>), James Goldie [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-6207>), Dean Marchiori [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-7225>), Paul Melloy [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4253-7167>), Mark Padgham [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-5265>), Hugh Parsonage [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4055-0835>), Keith Pembleton [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1896-4516>, Contributed code and ideas for original bomrang package that was used in the creation of weatherOz.), Maëlle Salmon [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2815-0399>, Contributed to debugging a nasty little bug with CI where timezones caused tests to fail due to vcr not recognising the URL when run outside of Australia-Perth TZ! Suggested the use of local_timzeone().), Max Moldovan [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-8474>, Contributed valuable feedback on package usage leading to improvements in the package structure and functionality.), Jimmy Ng [ctb], Steve Collins [ctb] (Designed the hex logo for 'weatherOz' hex logo.), Adam H. Sparks [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359>), Laurens Geffert [rev], Sam Rogers [rev], Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA) [cph], Curtin University [cph]
MaintainerRodrigo Pires <rodrigo.pires@dpird.wa.gov.au>
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
Version2.0.2
URL https://github.com/ropensci/weatherOz/ https://docs.ropensci.org/weatherOz/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("weatherOz")

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