download_time_seq: Wunderground time series from URL

In MariekeDirk/GeoInterpolation: Temperature Interpolation methods

Description

Function to download 5min weather data from the www.wunderground.nl website. For a specific time period, station and variable(s) the data can be downloaded and saved in a directory. For each stationname a new folder is created (unless) the folder already exists. After downloading the daily files all the .txt files are combined and the daily files are deleted.

Usage

download_time_seq(stationname = "IZUIDHOL87",
  start = as.Date("2015/03/01"), stop = as.Date("2018/10/01"),
  var = "TemperatureC",
  folder.loc = "/nobackup/users/dirksen/data/wunderground/")

Arguments

stationname	Character, name of the station
start	Date, start of the download period
stop	Date, stop period of the download period
var	Character, variable(s) which you want to download
folder.loc	Character, location were the data will be stored. For each stationname a new folder is created.

Details

Download Wunderground data

Examples

#Run the example below to store data at the current location
download_time_seq(stationname = "IZUIDHOL87",
                  start = as.Date("2018/04/01"),
                  stop = as.Date("2018/05/01"),
                  var = "TemperatureC",
                  folder.loc = ".")
For multiple stations use lapply:
stations<-c('IZUIDHOL36','ILIMBURG36')
lapply(stations,download_time_seq)

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