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CRAN Task View: Hydrology
https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Hydrology
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rforecastca package #32

Closed rywhale closed 5 years ago

rywhale commented 5 years ago

A package I've been working on the last little bit: rforecastca. We might consider adding it to the "Meterological data" section.

Package Description: Allows users to retrieve weather forecasts from Environment Canada’s Datamart service in tabular format.

Currently the package supports retrieving the following forecasts:

I will be continuing to chip away at adding new forecasts. Currently just have these two because they're available in easily parse-able XML files (many of the others are in spatial formats that require some more thought/effort).

As far as I know, this is only R package currently in development which allows querying Environment Canada forecasts from Datamart.

boshek commented 5 years ago

Hi @rywhale

Looks like a great package. Do you have any plans to move it to CRAN? Task Views are really meant to house CRAN packages. You can include non-CRAN packages but they aren't installed with via ctv::install.views which I think ends up being a little confusing for the user. We have included some non-CRAN packages in the task view but ideally we will eventually move to CRAN only I think.

rywhale commented 5 years ago

@boshek I will put in some work to get this and kiwisR on CRAN and open a new issue once I'm successful. I've been meaning to get to this anyhow and it will be a good learning experience.