get_cities: Get information about available cities

In harihp12/cdoapi: R Interface for the NOAA Climate Data Online web API

Description

get_cities is a function that lists all the available cities for which the data can be fetched with get_weatherdata along with their data availability details.

Usage

get_cities()

Value

Data frame containing information about all the cities for which weather data is available and the time period of the data. The following columns are returned:

• mindate - minimum date from which data is available

• maxdate - maximum date upto which data is available

• datacoverage - measure of data availability in the time period

• id - city ID (required for using get_weatherdata)

• country - country ID

• City - city name

References

API Reference: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2#locations

Examples

## Not run: 

# First get your API-token here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token
# Then, set it as system variable (as character variable):
Sys.setenv("NOAA_TOKEN" = "YOUR_TOKEN_GOES_IN_HERE")

cities = get_cities()
head(cities)

head(cities[which(cities$country == "SW"), ]) # Cities in Sweden
head(cities[which(cities$country == "GM"), ]) # Cities in Germany

## End(Not run)

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