weather_reading {datagovsgR}

Weather Reading

Description

This functions calls upon the weather reading API from data.gov.sg and returns a list containing the air temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, wind direction and speed across Singapore. Data is updated every 5 minutes for the rainfall API, and every half minute for the other 4 API from NEA.

Usage

weather_reading(date_time = "", simplify = FALSE)

Arguments

date_time

Defaults to current (SGD) time. Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS

simplify

Defaults to FALSE. Otherwise, simplify = TRUE would return a data frame where all 5 metrics are joined according to weather stations, but return several NAs, as most weather stations collect rainfall data only.

Details

This API takes slighlty longer than the other APIs in the package as 5 APIs are wrapped within this function.

Value

A dataframe containing various weather readings from weather stations

Examples

weather_reading()
weather_reading(date = "2019-11-08T17:30:00")
weather_reading(date = "2018-01-04T09:16:17", simplify = TRUE)