stationInfo: Retrieve station info

In SantanderMetGroup/loadeR: A climate4R package for data access <http://meteo.unican.es/climate4r>

Retrieve station info

Description

Get a quick overview of the stations contained in a stations dataset

Usage

stationInfo(dataset, plot = TRUE)

Arguments

dataset	A character string indicating the database to be accessed. For station data in standard ASCII format, this is the path to the directory the dataset lives in.
plot	Logical indicating if a map displaying the station locations should be displayed. Default to TRUE.

Value

A data.frame with the station codes in its first column, followed by longitude and latitude, and the rest of metadata (if any) in the following columns. If plot = TRUE, also a map of the station locations.

Note

For an adequate map display the station coordinates must be in decimal degrees.

Author(s)

J. Bedia

See Also

dataInventory to obtain a more exhaustive report the dataset.

Examples

dir.create("mydirectory")
download.file("http://meteo.unican.es/work/loadeR/data/VALUE_ECA_86_v2.tar.gz", 
              destfile = "mydirectory/VALUE_ECA_86_v2.tar.gz")
# Extract files from the tar.gz file
untar("mydirectory/VALUE_ECA_86_v2.tar.gz", exdir = "mydirectory")
# Data inventory
value <- "mydirectory/VALUE_ECA_86_v2"
print(stationInfo(value))

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