Fetch the BOM agricultural bulletin information and return it in a data frame
get_ag_bulletin(state = "AUS")
Australian state or territory as full name or postal code.
Fuzzy string matching via agrep
is done. Defaults to
“AUS” returning all state bulletins, see Details for more.
A data frame as a data.table
object of Australia
BOM agricultural bulletin information. For full details of fields
and units returned see Appendix 3 in the bomrang vignette, use
vignette("bomrang", package = "bomrang")
to view.
Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request
or all using AUS
.
Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT
Agricultural observations are retrieved from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data Services Agriculture Bulletins, http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/observations/about-agricultural.shtml
and
Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)) Weather Data Services Observation of Rainfall, http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/observations/rain-measure.shtml
Station location and other metadata are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) webpage, Bureau of Meteorology Site Numbers: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/about/site-num.shtml
# NOT RUN {
ag_bulletin <- get_ag_bulletin(state = "QLD")
ag_bulletin
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }
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