getStationsByCity: Get k-nearest station data

In mpiccirilli/weatheR: Download, Transform, and plot NOAA ISD weather data

Description

This function utilizes the kNStation() function to find the k-nearest stations, and downloads all the data for those stations in between a given date range (in years).

Usage

getStationsByCity(city.list, station.list, k = 5, begin, end)

Arguments

city.list	City of list of Cities. The format should be as follows: "City, State", or "City, Country"
station.list	Full list of ISD stations included in the package
k	The number of stations to return
begin	Start year (4 digits)
end	End year (4 digits)

Value

Returns a list of two items.

1) Status of downloading each year's data for each station 2) A list of dataframes. Each dataframe is all years data of a particular station.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(stations)
cities <- c("Nairobi, Kenya", "Tema, Ghana", "Accra, Ghana", "Abidjan, Ivory Coast")
get.stations <- getStationsByCity(cities, station.list, begin = 2012, end = 2013)
get.stations$dl_status
class(get.stations$station_data)
length(get.stations$station_data)

## End(Not run)

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