wrcc_identifyMonitorType: Identify RAWS station type

In MazamaScience/RAWSmet: Download and Process data from Remote Automatic Weather Stations

Identify RAWS station type

Description

Examine the column names of the incoming character vector to identify different types of monitor data provided by RAWS.

The return is a list includes everything needed to identify and parse the raw data using readr::read_tsv():

• monitorType – identification string

• rawNames – column names from the data (including special characters)

• columnNames – assigned column names (special characters repaced with '.')

• columnTypes – column type string for use with readr::read_csv()

The monitorType will be one of:

• "WRCC_TYPE1" – ???

• "WRCC_TYPE2" – ???

• "WRCC_TYPE3" – ???

• "UNKOWN" – ???

Usage

wrcc_identifyMonitorType(fileString = NULL)

Arguments

fileString

character string containing RAWS data

Value

List including monitorType, rawNames, columnNames and columnTypes.

References

RAWS USA Climate Archive

Examples

## Not run: 
library(RAWSmet)

fileString <- wrcc_downloadData(wrccID = 'WENU')
monitorTypeList <- wrcc_identifyMonitorType(fileString)
str(monitorTypeList)

## End(Not run)

MazamaScience/RAWSmet documentation built on May 6, 2023, 6:57 a.m.