bomMonthlyObs: A BOM monthly observation extractor.

In johnDorian/BOMdataRipper: Australian BOM data extraction and analysis

Description

A function to extract daily data from the BOM website.

Usage

bomMonthlyObs(siteNumber, observation = "mean_max_temp",...)

Arguments

siteNumber	Either numeric without leading 0, or character with leading 0 of the site number.
observation	The type of observation desired. Options are; observation must be; mean_max_temp, mean_min_temp, highest_temp, lowest_temp, highest_min_temp, rain or solar.
...	Additional commands for the RCurl package.

Details

The possible values are maximum monthly temp, solar exposure and rainfall. This function makes a request to the server and then reads the displayed values in two table

Value

monthly	A data.frame containing the returned monthly values.
summaryStats	A table of summary statistics for the site.

Examples

## Not run: 
siteNumber <- 066062
siteNumber
data <-bomMonthlyObs(siteNumber,observation="rain")
names(data)
names(data$monthly)
plot(data$monthly$observation,type="h")
data$summaryStats

## End(Not run)

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