Description Usage Arguments Value Examples
View source: R/query_meta_data.R
Provides easy access to the CO-OPS Metadata API. The api makes information about measurement stations available to users. Information about a single station or a collection of stations can be accessed. Depending on the type of station queried different information is returned.
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station_id |
an optional string that provides the a 7 character station id. If omitted the derived product API returns data for all stations. |
resource |
a character string indicating they type of information to request for a specific station. A list of resource identifiers is available in the API Documentation |
type |
a character string indicating the sensor of interest. Specifying a sensor of interest returns a data frame with all stations that have the particular sensor. A list of sensor identifiers is available in the API Documentation |
ports |
A two character string indicating specific ports. |
units |
a character string specifying if the data should be returned
using metric or English units. Defaults to |
radius |
an optional numeric argument indicating the radius in nautical miles to search for nearby stations |
bin |
an optional (positive integer) argument to requests for currents station harmonic constituents. If not specified, all the bins will be returned. |
A data frame. The content of the data frame is dependent on the API call. See the API documentation for specifics.
1 2 3 4 5 | # Query a single stations sensors.
sensor_df <- query_metadata('9414290', 'sensors')
# Query all stations
all_stations_df <- query_metadata()
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