readVars: Process data from the DWD CDC FTP Server

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

Process data from the DWD CDC FTP Server

Description

Read climate variables (column meta data) from zip folders downloaded with dataDWD(). The metadata file "Metadaten_Parameter.*txt" in the zip folder file is read, processed and returned as a data.frame.
file can be a vector with several filenames.

Usage

readVars(file, params = dwdparams, quiet = rdwdquiet(), progbar = TRUE)

Arguments

file	Char (vector): name(s) of the file(s) downloaded with dataDWD(), e.g. "~/DWDdata/tageswerte_KL_02575_akt.zip"
params	data.frame: Parameter explanations. DEFAULT: dwdparams
quiet	Suppress message about non-abbreviated parameters? DEFAULT: FALSE through rdwdquiet()
progbar	Logical: present a progress bar with estimated remaining time? If missing and length(file)==1, progbar is internally set to FALSE. DEFAULT: TRUE

Value

data.frame of the desired dataset, or a named list of data.frames if length(file) > 1.

Author(s)

Berry Boessenkool, [e-mail], Jun 2018

See Also

dataDWD(), readDWD(), dwdparams, newColumnNames()
readMeta() for complete Metadaten_Parameter file.
website use case

Examples

# see dataDWD

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