Error when downloading data?

[lzb5600]

when I run the following code:

library("bomrang") tmpweather <- get_historical( stationid = "066208", type = "min")

The error message occurred: Error in .get_zip_url(stationid, obscode) : Error in retrieving resource identifiers.

I can download some other data with other latlon/stationid, but for some of them this error occurred,

[jonocarroll]

Just checking - are you sure that's the stationid you used? I get the error "Station not recognised." which is what I'd expect to happen if the station wasn't listed in bomrang's internal database.

Could you perhaps post a reprex with si=TRUE?

[jonocarroll]

The internal database was updated recently, so it's possible that it's not fully aligned for get_historical(). I can't check until I update to R 3.5.

[lzb5600]

Thank you @jonocarroll . I have modified the description of this issue. This should reproduce the error.

[jonocarroll]

If I visit the URL which should provide the intermediate data, I get

No data available
Unfortunately there are no data available for the site number you have entered. 
This may be because either the station number is invalid, or the station has not 
observed the type of data requested.

I can make this error visible to the user when detected.

Entering the stationid 066208 here: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/ shows the same error. Do you have reason to think there should be data for this station?

[lzb5600]

@jonocarroll Thanks. Actually, I am trying to get the historical weather condition for a set of latlon. When I loop through some coordinates, this error appears. I got the stationid from the error message.

For example, when I try:

get_historical(latlon = c(-34.21248, 150.9994), type = "min")

following message shows:

I am new to R, forgive me that I don't know how to use "reprex".

[jonocarroll]

Thank you, that's helpful. The 'Closest station' logic is supposedly finding the stationid physically closest to those coordinates, returning Wattamolla. According to the BOM search itself, it turns out Wattamolla has several stations

068218 068190 068161 (closed)

but it does not list 066208 at all.

Using the bureau's station finder with those coordinates it suggests many closed stations are close, and the nearest open station is 068024 Darkes Forest (Kintyre) NSW (~14km drive). Comparing to an actual map, Wattamolla Beach/Falls/etc... are a little further away (~25km drive).

None of the above stationids are recognised by bomrang.

In any case, I am starting to think this is an issue with sweep_for_stations and/or the known list of stations. @adamhsparks?

[lzb5600]

I think I figure out the reason. When I try:

get_historical(latlon = c(-34.21248,150.9994), type = "solar")

It works and fetch the solar exposure data of station "066208". It seems that it just select the nearest weather station no matter what type of data we are requiring. This may result in the error.

[jonocarroll]

With that code I get

Closest station: 068219 (WOLLONGONG (APPIN))

[jonocarroll]

The search for nearest stations occurs regardless of which type is requested. We do not have a cache of which data are available at each station.

[lzb5600]

@jonocarroll I have used update_forecast_towns() and update_station_locations(). May be this is the reason why we get different closest stations.

[jonocarroll]

That would have something to do with it, thank you.

[adamhsparks]

Closing this issue. Please feel free to reopen if you have further details about this issue.