HDD.scrape: Scrape Monthly Heating Degree Days State Data from NOAA

In xjessiex/envutils: Utility Functions for Data Analysis on Energy and Environment

Description

This function scrapes monthly Hooling Degree Days (population-weighted) from NOAA website at a state level. Please note that Alaska and Hawaii are not included. The output is a dataframe containing scrapped data with "Date" as the first column, followed by the monthly data of 48 states.

Usage

HDD.scrape(startdate, enddate)

Arguments

startdate	a character string to indicate the starting date, in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD"
enddate	a character string to indicate the ending date, in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD"

Examples

# scrape heating degree days from 1990 to 2017
HDD.scrape(startdate = "1990-01-01", enddate = "2017-12-01")

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