prism_archive_verify: Check the integrity of downloaded PRISM data

Description

prism_archive_verify() checks the data in the prism archive to ensure it is valid, or at least can be read into R, i.e., it is not corrupt. The prism variable type, time period, etc. is specified the same as for prism_archive_subset(). Any files that are not readable can automatically be re-downloaded.

check_corrupt() is the deprecated version of prism_archive_verify()

Usage

prism_archive_verify(
  type,
  temp_period,
  years = NULL,
  mon = NULL,
  minDate = NULL,
  maxDate = NULL,
  dates = NULL,
  download_corrupt = TRUE,
  keepZip = TRUE
)
check_corrupt(type, minDate = NULL, maxDate = NULL, dates = NULL)

Value

prism_archive_verify() returns TRUE if all data are readable. Any prism data that are not readable are returned (folder names), whether they are re-downloaded or not.

check_corrupt() returns logical indicating whether the process succeeded.

Arguments

type: The type of data you want to subset. Must be "ppt", "tmean", "tmin", "tmax", "tdmean", "vpdmin", or "vpdmax".
temp_period: The temporal period to subset. Must be "annual", "monthly", "daily", "monthly normals", or "annual normals".
years: Valid numeric year, or vector of years.
mon: Valid numeric month, or vector of months.
minDate: Date to start subsetting daily data. Must be specified in a valid iso-8601 (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD) format. May be provided as either a character or base::Date class.
maxDate: Date to end subsetting daily data. Must be specified in a valid iso-8601 (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD) format. May be provided as either a character or base::Date class.
dates: A vector of daily dates to subset. Must be specified in a valid iso-8601 (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD) format. May be provided as either a character or base::Date class.
download_corrupt: If TRUE, then any unreadable prism data are automatically re-downloaded.
keepZip: If TRUE, leave the downloaded zip files in your 'prism.path', if FALSE, they will be deleted.

Details

Under the hood, it uses raster::stack() and then raster::rasterToPoints() to determine if the bil files are readable. If both those files are able to successfully read the files, they are assumed to be valid/readable.