dtDownloadCurrentMonthSilsoSunspotsTimeSeries: Fetch the SILSO sunspots daily time series for current month

In wegar-2/okeanos.astro.interface:

Description

Fetch the daily SILSO sunspots time series for the current month (updated daily)

Usage

dtDownloadCurrentMonthSilsoSunspotsTimeSeries()

Details

This function fetches the time series of sunspots published by SILSO for the current month. The specific file from which the data is fetched is:

It is stressed that the returned data is raw (e.g. the rows with missing observations are not excluded, etc.)

Value

data.table in case the fetch is successful; NULL otherwise; The returned data.table has following columns whose names are largely self-explanatory: 1) "date_year", 2) "date_month", 3) "date_day", 4) "date_yearfraction", 5) "sunspot_number", 6) "sunspot_number_std", 7) "number_of_observations_used", 8) "is_value_definitive"

wegar-2/okeanos.astro.interface documentation built on March 15, 2021, 1:17 a.m.