metar_dir

Extract a wind direction value from METAR weather report.

Allows to download current and historical METAR weather reports
extract and parse basic parameters and present main weather information.
Current reports are downloaded from Aviation Weather Center
<https://aviationweather.gov/data/metar/> and historical reports from
Iowa Environmental Mesonet web page of Iowa State University
ASOS-AWOS-METAR <http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/AWOS/>.

Pawel Cwiek

pmetar

Processing METAR Weather Reports

David Megginson

Greg Thompson

metar_dir function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>character vector; a METAR weather report or reports.</dd>
<dt>numeric_only</dt>
<dd>logical; the default value is FALSE and information about variability will be included.
If TRUE only a numeric value of direction will be returned.</dd>
<dt>check</dt>
<dd>logical; if TRUE the syntax of METAR reports will be checked.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Get wind direction. — metar_dir

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>character vector; a METAR weather report or reports.</dd>


<dt>numeric_only</dt>
<dd>logical; the default value is FALSE and information about variability will be included.
If TRUE only a numeric value of direction will be returned.</dd>


<dt>check</dt>
<dd>logical; if TRUE the syntax of METAR reports will be checked.</dd>

</dl>

metar_dir: Get wind direction.

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