IrisClient-class {IRISSeismic}

Class "IrisClient"

Description

A class for making data and metadata requests from IRIS DMC web services.

Slots

site:

Object of class "character": this is the first part of the url that the web service will be pointed to, defaults to https://service.iris.edu

service_type:

Object of class "character": defaults to fdsnws; for data retrieval from the IRIS PH5 repository, set this to ph5ws;

debug:

Object of class "logical": when set to TRUE will cause any web service requestURL to be printed

useragent:

Object of class "character": client identification string

Methods

getAvailability

makes a channel request of the station web service and returns the result as a dataframe; see getAvailability

getChannel

makes a channel request of the station web service and returns the result as a dataframe; see getChannel

getDataAvailability

makes a channel request of the irisws availability web service and returns the result as a dataframe; see getDataAvailability

getDataselect

makes a request of the dataselect web service and returns a Stream object; see getDataselect

getDistaz

makes a request of the distaz web service and returns a the information as a dataframe; see getDistaz

getEvalresp

makes a request of the instrument response web service and returns the information as a dataframe; see getEvalresp

getEvent

makes a request of the event web service and returns the information as a dataframe, if site='https://service.iris.edu' then getEvent will direct to "https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?"; see getEvent

getNetwork

makes a network request of the station web service and returns the result as a dataframe; see getNetwork

getSNCL:

calls the getDataselect method and returns a Stream object; see getSNCL

getStation

makes a station request of the station web service and returns the result as a dataframe; see getStation

getTraveltime

makes a request of the traveltime web service and returns the information as a dataframe; see getTraveltime

getUnavailability

makes a channel request of the station web service and returns the result as a dataframe; see getUnavailability

Note

The IrisClient object is inspired by the clients.fdsn.client.Client class found in the python ObsPy package (https://docs.obspy.org/packages/autogen/obspy.clients.fdsn.client.Client.html).

Author(s)

Jonathan Callahan [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
# Open a connection to IRIS DMC webservices
iris <- new("IrisClient", debug=TRUE)

starttime <- as.POSIXct("2012-01-24", tz="GMT")
endtime <- as.POSIXct("2012-01-25", tz="GMT")

# Get the waveform
st <- getDataselect(iris,"AK","PIN","","BHZ",starttime,endtime)
mean(st)

## End(Not run)