make_metsta {metsyn}

Creation of the 'metsta' dataset made of Meteo France Synop meteorogical stations

Description

The function make_metsta creates the metsta dataset from the file postesSynop.csv downloaded here. make_metsta looks for this file in the file.path(path, "data-raw") folder.

This dataset contains the following columns:

• Id: WMO meteorological station id;

• Name: name of the meteorological station;

• Latitude, Longitude, Altitude: coordinates of the meteorological station.

Usage

make_metsta(path = ".", save_it = FALSE)

Arguments

path

character. Data once created are saved in the folder file.path(path, "data").

save_it

logical. If TRUE, the result is saved as an .RData file in the folder file.path(path, "data").

Value

Returns invisibly the tibble created, with 5 columns and 62 rows.

Note

This dataset is distributed by Meteo France under the terms of the Open Licence 1.0, provided by Etalab and designed to be compatible with the "Creative Commons Attribution 2.0" (CC-BY 2.0) licence of Creative Commons. Etalab is the task force under the French Prime Minister's authority leading Open Government Data policy for France.

Source

Meteo France, see here.

See Also

metsyn for the dataset containing Meteo France Synop data; metdes for the dataset which gives some descriptive information on metsyn.

Examples

## Not run: 
dir.create("data-raw", showWarnings = FALSE)
make_metsta(save_it = TRUE)

## End(Not run)