get_buoy_wx: Retrieve historical METAR weather from NOAA buoy

In adamdsmith/nrsmisc: Miscellaneous functions for work

Description

Retrieve historical METAR weather from NOAA buoy; see http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/. This function is a thin wrapper around buoy mainly for multiple year queries and output formatting

Usage

get_buoy_wx(buoy = NULL, years = as.POSIXlt(Sys.Date())$year + 1900,
  out_tz = "GMT")

Arguments

buoy	character or integer scalar of buoy from which to retrieve weather. Browse at http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ or see buoy_stations.
years	integer vector of years for which data are required
out_tz	time zone specification to be used for output. System-specific (see timezones. Default is "GMT" (UTC; Universal Time, Coordinated).

Examples

## Not run: 
wx <- get_buoy_wx("DPIA1", years = 2017, out_tz = "America/Chicago")
# Current year, in GMT
wx <- get_buoy_wx(41063)

## End(Not run)

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