Access Canadian Historical Climate Data

Documentation for package ‘chcd’ version 0.1.1

build_url	Build a valid URL for downloading a file from CHCD. Follows the format detailed here <https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/climate/Get_More_Data_Plus_de_donnees/>.
dl_csv	Downloads a csv from the internet
get_climatedata	Get historical climate data for the specified time and place. The data returned will be raw data as originally reported. As many weather stations historically use manual entry to report this data this is likely to mean that data cleaning will be required for sensible usage.
get_station	Find climate station or stations from a given place. This also confirms if a given climate station ID is valid.
get_timecode	Converts a text based interval into a CHCD timecode
stations_near	Finds climate stations near to a given location.
test_climatefile	Given a file and a list of expected columns this will test to make sure our data looks good. Returns TRUE if all expected columns are present in the file, otherwise returns FALSE.