rnoaa: 'NOAA' Weather Data from R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value File storage References See Also Examples

Get NOAA ISD/ISH station data from NOAA FTP server.

1	isd_stations(refresh = FALSE, ...)

`refresh`	(logical) Download station data from NOAA ftp server again. Default: `FALSE`
`...`	Curl options passed on to `GET`

The data table is cached, but you can force download of data from NOAA by setting refresh=TRUE

a tibble (data.frame) with the columns:

usaf - USAF number, character
wban - WBAN number, character
station_name - station name, character
ctry - Country, if given, character
state - State, if given, character
icao - ICAO number, if given, character
lat - Latitude, if given, numeric
lon - Longitude, if given, numeric
elev_m - Elevation, if given, numeric
begin - Begin date of data coverage, of form YYYYMMDD, numeric
end - End date of data coverage, of form YYYYMMDD, numeric

We use rappdirs to store files, see user_cache_dir for how we determine the directory on your machine to save files to, and run rappdirs::user_cache_dir("rnoaa") to get that directory.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/

Other isd: isd_read, isd_stations_search, isd

## Not run: 
# Get station table
(stations <- isd_stations())

## plot stations
### remove incomplete cases, those at 0,0
df <- stations[complete.cases(stations$lat, stations$lon), ]
df <- df[df$lat != 0, ]
### make plot
library("leaflet")
leaflet(data = df) %>%
  addTiles() %>%
  addCircles()

## End(Not run)