- rank
- rank of the stations: "synop" (default), "climate", or "precip" 
- year
- vector of years (e.g., 1966:2000) 
- status
- leave the columns with measurement and observation statuses
(default status = FALSE - i.e. the status columns are deleted) 
- coords
- add coordinates of the station (logical value TRUE or FALSE) 
- station
- name of meteorological station(s).
It accepts names (characters in CAPITAL LETTERS); Stations' IDs (numeric) are no longer valid 
- col_names
- three types of column names possible:
"short" - default, values with shorten names,
"full" - full English description,
"polish" - original names in the dataset 
- allow_failure
- logical - whether to proceed or stop on failure. By default set to TRUE (i.e. don't stop on error). For debugging purposes change to FALSE 
- ...
- other parameters that may be passed to the 'shortening' function that
shortens column names