rdwd (version 0.7.0)

metaIndex: station info (meta data) available on the DWD CDC FTP server

Description

A data.frame with the contents of all the station description files (..._Beschreibung_Stationen.txt) in the folders hourly, daily and monthly at ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/observations_germany/climate/. Created with createIndex in the last section of https://github.com/brry/rdwd/blob/master/R/meta.R In functions, you can access it with rdwd:::metaIndex.

Format

data.frame with ca 38k rows for 12 columns: Stations_id, von_datum, bis_datum Stationshoehe, geoBreite, geoLaenge Stationsname, Bundesland, res, var, per (see selectDWD), hasfile

See Also

geoIndex for metadata per location, fileIndex, findID, metaInfo

Examples

data(metaIndex)
head(metaIndex)
# in functions, you can use head(rdwd:::metaIndex)

# example usages are in ?rdwd