rrricanes
is a R library that extracts information from available
archives on
past and current tropical cyclones. Currently, archives date back to
1998.
Data can be obtained for cyclones in the north Atlantic (considered the Atlantic Basin) and north-eastern Pacific (the East Pacific Basin from 140°W and eastward.
Central Pacific data (140°W to 180°W) is included if issued by the National Hurricane Center (generally they’re issued by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center).
This library parses the text advisories of all tropical cyclones since
rrcanes is not currently on CRAN. A group of people (who welcome others to join us) are working on updating the package and get it back into shape for submission to CRAN. Because it has been a while we are taking the opportunity to do some updating and refactoring. Specifically we are working to get the package working with the recent https://r-spatial.org/. When possible we are also shifting to more modern APIs for accessing the data when they are available.
Please report any issues and share ideas in the issue tracker and code with pull requests.
This package was created by Time Trice with the goal of consolidating messy text data into well-organized formats that can easily be saved to CSV, SQL and other data formats.
Generally speaking, there are five products available for tropical cyclones issued at 03:00, 09:00, 15:00 and 21:00 UTC;
Storm Discussion - These are technical discussions centered on the current structure of the cyclone, satellite presentation, computer forecast model tendencies and more.
Forecast/Adivsory - This data-rich product lists the current location of the cyclone, its wind structure, forecast and forecast wind structure.
Public Advisory - These are general text statements issued for the public-at-large. Information in these products is a summary of the Forecast/Advisory product along with any watches and warnings issued, changed, or cancelled. Public Advisory products are the only regularly-scheduled product that may be issued intermittently (every three hours and, occasionally, every two hours) when watches and warnings are in effect.
Wind Speed Probabilities - These products list the probability of a minimum sustained wind speed expected in a given forecast window. This product replaces the Strike Probabilities product beginning in 2006 (see below).
Updates - Tropical Cyclone Updates may be issued at any time if a storm is an immediate threat to land or if the cyclone undergoes a significant change of strength or structure. The information in this product is general.
Discontinued Products
These products are included in the package though they have been discontinued at some point:
Strike Probabilities - List the probability of a tropical cyclone passing within 65 nautical miles of a location within a forecast window. Replaced in 2006 by the Wind Speed Probabilities product.
Position Estimates - Typically issued as a storm is threatening land but generally rare (see Hurricane Ike 2008, Key AL092008). It is generally just an update of the current location of the cyclone. After the 2011 hurricane season, this product was discontinued; Updates are now issued in their place.
**Note that the discontinued products are historical only and eventually we will create
Please view the vignette ‘Getting Started’:
vignette("getting_started", package = "rrricanes")
Online documentation is also available.
rrricanes
requires an active internet connection as data is extracted
from online sources.
Linux users must also have the libgdal-dev
, libproj-dev
and
libxml2-dev
packages installed.
To add rrricanesdata
, a package of post-scraped
datasets,
install.packages("rrricanesdata",
repos = "https://timtrice.github.io/drat/",
type = "source")
However this package is not currently maintained.
To use high resolution tracking maps you will need to install the
rnaturalearthhires
package.
install.packages("rnaturalearthhires",
repos = "http://packages.ropensci.org",
type = "source")
rrricanes
is currently only available in GitHub. It can be installed
using the devtools
package:
devtools::install_github("ropensci/rrricanes", build_vignettes = TRUE)
New minimum versions for a number of dependencies have been establised. This provides opportunity to build on newer features of the packages
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
Status
and Name
values in some datasets.
(#82)