getCurrentTemperature: Get the latest recorded temperature for a location
Description
Function will return the latest avialable
temperature at a specified location.
Usage
getCurrentTemperature(station_id)
Arguments
station_id
is a valid Weather Station ID
(example: "BUF", "ORD", "VABB" for Mumbai).
Valid Weather Station "id" values: "KFLMIAMI75" or "IMOSCOWO2" You can look these up
at wunderground.com. You can get station_id's for a given location
by calling getStationCode()
Value
A one row data frame containing:
Date and Time stamp (for when the latest temperature reading was recorded)
Temperature for the station in Farenheit (or Celcius)
Details
A wrapper for getDetailedWeather(), it returns the last
record in the web page. Uses Sys.Date() to get current time. This function
returns temperature in Farenheit or Celcius depending on the caller's location.