SILODownload {SWTools}

Download SILO data

Description

Download SILO data

Usage

SILODownload(
  SiteList,
  username = "[e-mail]",
  password = "gui",
  path = getwd(),
  startdate = "18890101",
  enddate = NULL,
  ssl = FALSE
)

Arguments

SiteList

A station number or vector of station numbers, as a string (e.g. "24001")

username

SILO user name. Defaults to credentials used by https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/point-data/

password

SILO password

path

Where to save the output. Will default to getwd() if not specified

startdate

First day of data, in the format "YYYYMMDD". Will default to the first day of the record "18890101" if not specified

enddate

Last day of data, in the format "YYYYMMDD". Will default to yesterday if not specified

ssl

if true set ssl_cipher_list to "RC4-SHA" for file download. Seems to be necessary on some machines. default to FALSE

Value

A file for each station will be saved to path, named station number.txt. Nothing is returned to the R environment.

Examples

## Not run: 
SILODownload(c("24001","24002","24003"),
path=tempdir(),
startdate="20180101",enddate="20200101")

## End(Not run)