index: Indexes of files and metadata on the DWD CDC FTP server

In brry/rdwd: Select and Download Climate Data from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)

Indexes of files and metadata on the DWD CDC FTP server

Description

Created with indexFTP() and createIndex() used in updateIndexes().
In functions, you can access them with rdwd:::fileIndex etc.
fileIndex: A data.frame with the filenames (and derived information) at the default base value dwdbase.
metaIndex: A data.frame with the contents of all the station description files (..._Beschreibung_Stationen.txt) under dwdbase.
geoIndex: metaIndex distilled to geographic locations.
gridIndex: Vector of file paths at gridbase.
formatIndex: (modified) table from https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/subdaily/standard_format/formate_kl.html

Format

fileIndex: data.frame with character strings. ca 260k rows x 8 columns:
res, var, per (see selectDWD()), station id, time series start and end, and ismeta information, all according to path.
metaIndex: data.frame with ca 97k rows for 12 columns:
⁠Stations_id, von_datum, bis_datum, Stationshoehe, geoBreite, geoLaenge, Stationsname, Bundesland, res, var, per, hasfile⁠
geoIndex: data.frame with ca 6k rows for 11 columns:
⁠id, name, state, lat, lon, ele, nfiles, nonpublic, recentfile, display, col⁠
gridIndex: Vector with ca 50k file paths at gridbase
formatIndex: data.frame with 140 rows for 12 columns:
⁠Ke_Ind, Kennung, Label, Beschreibung, Einheit, Code-Tabellen, Zusatzinfo, Typ, Pos, Erlaubt, Fehlk, dividebyten⁠

Author(s)

Berry Boessenkool, [e-mail], June-Nov 2016, June 2017, Oct 2019

Source

Deutscher WetterDienst / Climate Data Center FTP Server

See Also

createIndex(), indexFTP(), selectDWD(), findID(), metaInfo(), website index chapter

Examples

data(fileIndex)
data(metaIndex)
data(geoIndex)
head(fileIndex)
head(metaIndex)
head(geoIndex)

# in functions, you can use head(rdwd:::fileIndex) etc, but I don't export them
# because Hadley says 'Never @export a data set' in
# browseURL("http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/data.html#data-data")

# To use a custom index, see
# browseURL("https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd/fileindex.html")

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