In steffilazerte/envirocan: Download Weather Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada

library(weathercan)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(stringr)

This table shows details regarding original column (measurement) names and units of all climate normals measurements. It further provides links back to the ECCC glossary for more details.

See the ECCC website on climate normals for more details: <r paste0("https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/", "climate-change/canadian-centre-climate-services/display-download/", "technical-documentation-climate-normals.html")>

For details on weather measurements, see the glossary vignette.

General descriptions

glossary_normals[1:18,] %>%
  mutate(description = stringr::str_replace_all(description, "\\n", " ")) %>%
  knitr::kable()

Original names and units

These represent the original ECCC measurement names with units and their corresponding measurements in weathercan.

g <- glossary_normals[19:nrow(glossary_normals),] %>%
  select(-description) %>%
  mutate(group = str_detect(weathercan_name, "title"),
         group = cumsum(group)) %>%
  filter(weathercan_name != "probability") %>%
  group_by(group) %>% 
  mutate(title = ECCC_name[1]) %>%
  group_by(title) %>%
  filter(!str_detect(weathercan_name, "title")) %>%
  select(-group) %>%
  nest()

for(t in 1:nrow(g)) {
  cat("<center><h4>", str_to_title(g$title[t]), "</h3></center>\n")
  print(knitr::kable(g$data[[t]], format = "html"))
  cat("\n")
}

steffilazerte/envirocan documentation built on Sept. 25, 2023, 10:16 p.m.