Package allows to download current and historical METAR weather reports and decode basic parameters.
The main functions scrap data from the below web pages:
Please take into consideration that the http://www.ogimet.com/ can
block too frequent requests for data due to the server overload.
Information about the locations of the METAR stations / ariports were taken from two sources:
The both above data sources are in the public domain.
CRAN version
install.packages("pmetar")
Get the development version 0.4.0.2 from github:
# install.packages("devtools")
::install_github("prcwiek/pmetar") devtools
library('pmetar')