| readVars {rdwd} | R Documentation |
Process data from the DWD CDC FTP Server
Description
Read climate variables (column meta data) from zip folders downloaded with
dataDWD().
The metadata file "Metadaten_Parameter.*txt" in the zip folder file
is read, processed and returned as a data.frame.
file can be a vector with several filenames.
Usage
readVars(file, params = dwdparams, quiet = rdwdquiet(), progbar = TRUE)
Arguments
file |
Char (vector): name(s) of the file(s) downloaded with |
params |
data.frame: Parameter explanations. DEFAULT: |
quiet |
Suppress message about non-abbreviated parameters?
DEFAULT: FALSE through |
progbar |
Logical: present a progress bar with estimated remaining time? If missing and length(file)==1, progbar is internally set to FALSE. DEFAULT: TRUE |
Value
data.frame of the desired dataset, or a named list of data.frames if length(file) > 1.
Author(s)
Berry Boessenkool, berry-b@gmx.de, Jun 2018
See Also
dataDWD(), readDWD(), dwdparams, newColumnNames()
readMeta() for complete Metadaten_Parameter file.
website use case
Examples
# see dataDWD