Fetch the BOM agricultural bulletin information and return it in a tidy 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.
Tidy data.table
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
.
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Australia, returns bulletin for all states and NT
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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