formatGhcn: creates a 14 column dataset for output

Description

The entire dataset of Environment Canada has 25 columns of data: Tmax,Tmin,Tave, quality flags and other climate data. For use with the package RghcnV3 a 14 column format is required. This format is similar to the 14 column format of GHCN V2. Id is in the first column, followed by Year, followed by 12 measures, one for each month of the year in column 2. This function takes a column and creates a dataset in that format

Usage

formatGhcn(data, dataColumn = 7)

Arguments

data

A dataset that has been created by createDataset

dataColumn

The column of the data you want to reformat. column = 7, will collate the Mean air temperature from a full 25 column dataset. Use colnames(data) to determine which column you want to format

Value

Details

GHCN data is in 14 column or 51 column format. Every row of data has an Id, a year and 12 months of data. This function takes the datasets of this package and creates formats that are readable by the package RghcnV3. The function createDataset is used to read from csv files and create a complete dataset with 25 columns of data. Typically you want to work with one data item at a time. This function allows you to extract and reformat a column of that data

Examples

Run this code

 ## Not run: 
#    data <-createDataset()
#    Mean <-formatGhcn(data)
#    writeGhcn(Mean)
#  ## End(Not run)