prism (version 0.0.7)

get_prism_monthlys: Download monthly prism data

Description

Download monthly data from the prism project at 4km grid cell resolution for precipitation, mean, min, and max temperature

Usage

get_prism_monthlys(type, years = NULL, mon = NULL, keepZip = TRUE)

Arguments

type

The type of data to download, must be "ppt", "tmean", "tmin", "tmax", which downloads "ppt", "tmin", and "tmax". Note that tmean == mean(tmin, tmax).

years

a valid numeric years, or vector of years, to download data for. If no month is specified, years averages for that years will be downloaded

mon

a valid numeric month, or vector of mon.

keepZip

if true, leave the downloaded zip files in your 'prism.path', if FALSE, they will be deleted

Details

Data is available from 1891 until 2014, however you have to download all data for years prior to 1981. Therefore if you enter a vector of years that bounds 1981, you will automatically download all data for all years in the vector. If the "all" parameter is set to TRUE, it will override any mon entered and download all data. Data will be downloaded for all mon in all the years in the vectors supplied. You must make sure that you have set up a valid download directory. This must be set as options(prism.path = "YOURPATH")

Examples

# NOT RUN {
### Get all the data for January from 1990 to 2000
# get_prism_monthlys(type="tmean", years = 1990:2000, mon = 1, keepZip=FALSE)
# }