get_dsi3240: Download Hourly Precipitation Data (HPD)

In mrubayet/rDSI: Download and process DSI-3240 and DSI-3260 Precipitation data

Description

This function downloads digital data set DSI-3240 which is hourly precipitation archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).Data will be downloaded State wise User will need to install 7zip to unzip compressed "tar.Z" raw files.

Usage

get_dsi3240(state = NULL, state.code = NULL, dirc = getwd())

Arguments

state	(character) state name abbreviation. Required if state.code =NULL
state.code	(Numerical) State code according to the documentation of DSI-3240. Required if state =NULL
dirc	(character) path to store downloaded files. Default: current diretectory.

Value

A data.frame containing site id , timestamp , houly precipitation in inch and flags.

References

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/hourly_precip-3240/dsi3240.pdf

mrubayet/rDSI documentation built on Aug. 24, 2019, 9:31 p.m.