This function can be used to download a Station Inventory CSV file from Environment and Climate Change Canada. This is only necessary if the station you're interested was only recently added. The 'stations' data set included in this package contains station data downloaded when the package was last compiled. This function may take a few minutes to run.
Arguments
- skip
Numeric. Number of lines to skip at the beginning of the csv. If NULL, automatically derived.
- verbose
Logical. Include progress messages
- quiet
Logical. Suppress all messages (including messages regarding missing data, etc.)
Details
The stations list is downloaded from the url stored in the option
weathercan.urls.stations. To change this location use
options(weathercan.urls.stations = "your_new_url").
The list of which stations have climate normals is downloaded from the url
stored in the option weathercan.urls.stations.normals. To change this
location use options(weathercan.urls.normals = "your_new_url").
Currently there are two sets of climate normals available: 1981-2010 and
1971-2000. Whether a station has climate normals for a given year range is
specified in normals_1981_2010 and normals_1971_2000, respectively.
The column normals represents the most current year range of climate
normals (i.e. currently 1981-2010)
Examples
if (FALSE) { # check_eccc()
# Update stations data frame
stations_dl()
# Updated stations data frame is now automatically used
stations_search("Winnipeg")
}