The InsightR package contains wrapper functions for interacting with the Insight API: http://docs.api.wdtinc.com/insight-api/en/latest/.
API authorization tokens may be obtained from here: http://wdtinc.com/skywise-home/insight-api/
# before making any calls you will need to set your app_id and app_key
> Authenticate("your_app_id", "your_app_key")
# set up some variables to make calls with
> lat <- 35
> lon <- -97
> start <- '2016-01-01'
> end <- '2016-01-31'
> gdd <- GrowingDegreeDays (lat, lon, start, end)
> gdd$response$status_code == 200
[1] TRUE
> summary(gdd$content$series[[3]])
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.4581 0.0000 5.2000
# hourly precipitation is only available for a 10 day timespan
> hp = HourlyPrecipitation(lat, lon, start, end)
Warning message:
In .call.api("hourly-precipitation", latitude, longitude, start, :
Unprocessable Entity (WebDAV; RFC 4918) (HTTP 422).
> hp$response$status_code
[1] 422
> hp$content$message
[1] "Your date/datetime query exceeded the maximum timespan of this resource."
> hp = HourlyPrecipitation(lat, lon, "2017-01-01", "2017-01-10")
> hp$response$status_code == 200
[1] TRUE
> summary(hp$content$series[[3]])
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.02745 0.00000 3.58000
# Daily endpoints can be up to 1 year in length
> cdd = CoolingDegreeDays(lat, lon, "2016-01-01", "2016-12-31")
> summary(cdd$content$series[[3]])
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
0.000 0.000 2.600 4.813 9.600 15.800
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