make_metsyn {metsyn}

Creation of the 'metsyn' dataset made of Meteo France Synop data

Description

The function make_metsyn creates the metsyn dataset from the files downloaded with download_monthly_synop. make_metsyn looks for these files in the file.path(path, "data-raw") folder.

This dataset is made of meteorological data recorded every three hours on 62 French meteorological stations.

The columns contained in this dataset are described by the metdes dataset.

Usage

make_metsyn(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 59 columns.

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

download_monthly_synop; metdes for the dataset which gives some descriptive information on metsyn; metsta for the dataset on the meteorological stations involved.

Examples

## Not run: 
dir.create("data-raw", showWarnings = FALSE)
for (y in 1996:2016) {
  for (m in 1:12) {
    m <- if (m < 10) paste0(0, m) else m
    download_monthly_synop(date = paste0(y, m), 
                           mode = "wb")
  }
}
make_metsyn(save_it = TRUE)

## End(Not run)