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brry / rdwd

download climate data from DWD (German Weather Service)
https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd
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newFilename: The following folder does not exist: '' #9

Closed yannikbuhl closed 5 years ago

yannikbuhl commented 5 years ago

Dear brry,

first, thanks so much for the handy package! I started using it today and encountered an error whose origins I could not determine. The following is my code:

download <- selectDWD(id = stations, res = "daily", outvec = TRUE) res1 <- dataDWD(file = download, dir = "Y:/This/Is/My/Path/dataDWD")

R keeps telling me: dataDWD -> dirDWD: adding to directory 'Y:/This/Is/My/Path/dataDWD' Error: dataDWD -> newFilename: The following folder does not exist: ''

This happens even when I use: res1 <- dataDWD(file = download)

Then, it creates the folder correctly at the current getwd() location, but kinda refuses to fill it.

Do you know any help?

brry commented 5 years ago

Hm, that's a tough one. dirname('Y:/This/Is/My/Path/dataDWD') seems to return an empty string. Can you verify that? What do you get with a parent directory existence check, i.e. dir.exists('Y:/This/Is/My/Path')

As to the second one: is your getwd() writable (write permission)? What do you mean with "kinda refuses to fill it"?

yannikbuhl commented 5 years ago

It's a work computer, I tried my private laptop and it works here. Usually, I have writing access on my work computer's path, even through R/RStudio (if I use download.file for example). I'll try to figure it out more in detail on Monday.