getWeatherForecast: Download weather forecast

In dsmirnov88/GermanWeatherData: German Weather Data

Description

Function for getting a weather forecast from an open weather API. Powered by Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Usage

getWeatherForecast(address, api_key = "a98e65d6eb8f07eb",
  max_requests = 500, export_query = FALSE,
  destination_path = file.path(Sys.getenv("USERPROFILE"), "Desktop", fsep =
  "\\"), proxy_url = "proxy.whu.edu", proxy_port = 3128,
  proxy_password = NULL, proxy_username = paste(Sys.getenv("USERDOMAIN"),
  Sys.getenv("USERNAME"), sep = "\\"), verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

address	Character value or vector of character strings (for query of multiple locations) containing the address of the location for which the data should be retreived in the format "street name, street number, ZIP code, city, country"
api_key	Weather Underground API key as character
max_requests	Numeric value indicating the maximum number of daily requests (in free version of the WU API == 500)
export_query	Logical value indicating if the downloaded data should be exported to a .csv file
destination_path	Destination path of the export .csv-file (default is set to desktop)
proxy_url	Optional character argument for the proxy URL
proxy_port	Optional numeric argument for the proxy port
proxy_password	Optional character argument for the password (if not supplied, no proxy settings are set)
proxy_username	Optional character argument containing the username
verbose	Optional parameter triggeringa console notification of the current query (if set to TRUE)
...	List of optional parameters to underlying functions

See Also

https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs

dsmirnov88/GermanWeatherData documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:22 p.m.