parse_precis_forecast {weatherOz} | R Documentation |
Parse local BOM daily précis forecast XML file(s) of the seven-day town forecasts for a specified state or territory or all Australia. Ported from bomrang.
parse_precis_forecast(state, filepath)
state |
Required value of an Australian state or territory as full name
or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via |
filepath |
A string providing the directory location of the précis file(s) to parse. See Details for more. |
Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using 'AUS'.
Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT
The filepath argument will only accept a directory where files
are located for parsing. DO NOT supply the full path including the file
name. This function will only parse the requested state or all of
Australia in the same fashion as get_precis_forecast()
, provided that the
files are all present in the directory.
A data.table::data.table()
of Australia BOM précis seven-day
forecasts for BOM selected towns.
Adam H. Sparks, adamhsparks@gmail.com, and Keith Pembleton, keith.pembleton@usq.edu.au, and Paul Melloy, paul@melloy.com.au
Forecast data come from Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
Weather Data Services
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml
Location data and other metadata for towns come from
the BOM anonymous FTP server with spatial data
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/, specifically the
DBF file portion of a shapefile,
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/IDM00013.dbf
Other BOM:
find_forecast_towns()
,
get_ag_bulletin()
,
get_available_imagery()
,
get_available_radar()
,
get_coastal_forecast()
,
get_precis_forecast()
,
get_radar_imagery()
,
get_satellite_imagery()
,
parse_ag_bulletin()
,
parse_coastal_forecast()
Other parse:
parse_ag_bulletin()
,
parse_coastal_forecast()
# parse the short forecast for Western Australia
# download to tempfile() using basename() to keep original name
utils::download.file(url = "ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDQ11295.xml",
destfile = file.path(tempdir(),
basename("ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDQ11295.xml")),
mode = "wb")
parse_precis_forecast(state = "QLD", filepath = tempdir())