GSODR (version 1.2.0)

update_station_list: Download Latest Station List Information and Update GSODR's Internal Database

Description

This function downloads the latest station list (isd-history.csv) from the NCEI FTP server and updates the data distributed with GSODR to the latest stations available. These data provide unique identifiers, country, state (if in US), latitude, longitude, elevation and when weather observations begin and end. Stations with invalid latitude and longitude values will not be included.

Usage

update_station_list()

Details

Care should be taken when using this function if reproducibility is necessary as different machines with the same version of GSODR can end up with different versions of the isd_history.csv file internally.

There is no need to use this unless you know that a station exists in the GSODR data that is not available in the database distributed with GSODR.

To directly access these data, use: load(system.file("extdata", "isd_history.rda", package = "GSODR"))

Examples

# NOT RUN {
update_station_list()
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }