getCurrentTemperature: Get the latest recorded temperature for a location
Description
Function will return the latest avialable temperature at a
specified location.
Usage
getCurrentTemperature(station_id)
Arguments
station_id
is a valid Weather Station ID (example:
"BUF", "ORD", "VABB" for Mumbai). Valid Weather Station
"id" values: "KFLMIAMI75" or "IMOSCOWO2"
You can look these up at wunderground.com. You can get
station_id's for a given location by calling
getStationCode()
Value
A one row data frame containing:
Date and
Time stamp (for when the latest temperature reading was
recorded)
Temperature for the station in Farenheit
(or Celcius)
Details
A wrapper for getDetailedWeather(), it returns the
last record in the web page. Uses Sys.Date() to get
current time. This function returns temperature in
Farenheit or Celcius depending on the caller's location.