Local Climatological Data from NOAA

Usage

lcd(station, year, col_types = NULL, ...)

Arguments

station: (character) station code, e.g., "02413099999". we will allow integer/numeric passed here, but station ids can have leading zeros, so it's a good idea to keep stations as character class. required
year: (integer) year, e.g., 2017. required
col_types: (named character vector) defaults to NULL. Use this argument to change the returned column type. For example,"character" instead of "numeric". See or use lcd_columns to create a named vector with allowed column names. If the user specified type is not compatible, the function will choose a type automatically and raise a message. optional
...: curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET

Value

a data.frame with many columns. the first 10 are metadata:

station
date
latitude
longitude
elevation
name
report_type
source

And the rest should be all data columns. The first part of many column names is the time period, being one of:

hourly
daily
monthly
shortduration

So the variable you are looking for may not be the first part of the column name

Note

See lcd_cache for managing cached files

References

Docs: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/local-climatological-data/doc/LCD_documentation.pdf Data comes from: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/local-climatological-data/access

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x = lcd(station = "01338099999", year = 2017)
lcd(station = "01338099999", year = 2015)
lcd(station = "02413099999", year = 2009)
lcd(station = "02413099999", year = 2001)

# pass curl options
lcd(station = "02413099999", year = 2002, verbose = TRUE)
}