GSODR (version 4.1.3)

get_inventory: Download and Return a data.table Object of GSOD Weather Station Data Inventories

Description

The NCEI maintains a document, https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/isd-inventory.txt, which lists the number of weather observations by station-year-month from the beginning of the stations' records. This function retrieves that document and prints an information header displaying the last update time with a data frame of the inventory information for each station-year-month.

Usage

get_inventory()

Value

A GSODR.info object, which inherits from data.table::data.table.

Author

Adam H. Sparks,

See Also

Other metadata: get_isd_history(), get_updates()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
inventory <- get_inventory()
inventory
}