getWeatherData: A user function for getting a list of weather reports for...
In steviep42/PWS: Final Project for STATS290

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also Examples

A user provides a city name and a radius. This function then goes and finds weather stations within the specified radius.

1	getWeatherData(locale = "Montreal,CA", distance = 20, statLimit = 150)

`locale`	A city/state/country name
`distance`	A distance/radius in miles
`statLimit`	A limit on the number of stations to be returned

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An S4 object containing weather information for each personal weather station found

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Steve Pittard <wsp@emory.edu>

STATS290 Website

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## The function is currently defined as
function (locale = "Montreal,CA", distance = 20, statLimit = 150) 
{
    .onLoad = function(libname, pkgname) {
        .libPaths("~wpittard/Library")
        require("svMisc")
    }
    myLocs = getLatLon(locale, distance)
    myStats = getStations(myLocs$locs, myLocs$iradius, statLimit)
    if (length(myStats) == 0) {
        stop("Sorry. No stations found within the specified radius")
    }
    baseStat = myStats[1]
    myWeatherObj = getWeather(myStats, myLocs$mlat, myLocs$mlon, 
        myLocs$iradius, myLocs$origCity, baseStat)
  }