Get Station Files — get_station

Download Environment Canada weather data by station

Usage

get_station_files(
  station_name = NULL,
  station_id = NULL,
  year = NULL,
  month = NULL,
  parallel_threshold = 50,
  root_folder = "station_data",
  HLY_station_info = NULL
)

Arguments

station_name: Character: The name of the weather station of interest.
station_id: Numeric Integer: The unique station ID of the weather station of interest.
year: Numeric Integer: The year of the data pull. If left empty, will default to downloading all years with hourly data for that particular station.
month: Numeric Integer: The month of the data pull (1 - 12). If left empty, will default to downloading data for all months (1-12).
parallel_threshold: Numeric Integer: The required number of files to trigger parallel downloads. If left unchanged, parallelization will occur for downloads of 50 files or more.
root_folder: The created download folder and file path. If left unchanged, will create a new "station_data" folder in the working directory.
HLY_station_info: Dataframe: Station metadata