weatherOz (version 2.0.1)

parse_ag_bulletin: Parse BOM Agriculture Bulletin XML Files

Description

Defunct: This function is defunct as of version 2.0.0 because the underlying BOM agricultural forecast bulletin service is no longer available.

Usage

parse_ag_bulletin(state, filepath)

Value

A data.table::data.table() of Australia BOM agricultural bulletin information.

Arguments

state

Required value of an Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via base::agrep() is done.

filepath

A string providing the directory location of the précis file(s) to parse. See Details for more.

Author

Adam H. Sparks, , and Paul Melloy,

Details

Parse local BOM agriculture bulletin XML file(s) for a specified state or territory or all Australia. Ported from bomrang.

Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using AUS.

AUS

Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT

ACT

Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)

NSW

New South Wales

NT

Northern Territory

QLD

Queensland

SA

South Australia

TAS

Tasmania

VIC

Victoria

WA

Western Australia

The filepath argument will only accept a directory where files are located for parsing. DO NOT supply the full path including the file name. This function will only parse the requested state or all of Australia in the same fashion as get_precis_forecast(), provided that the files are all present in the directory.

References

Agricultural observations are retrieved from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data Services Agriculture Bulletins,
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/observations/about-agricultural.shtml.

and

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)) Weather Data Services Observation of Rainfall,
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/observations/rain-measure.shtml.

Station location and other metadata are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) webpage, Bureau of Meteorology Site Numbers:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/about/site-num.shtml.

See Also

get_ag_bulletin

Other BOM: find_forecast_towns(), get_ag_bulletin(), get_available_imagery(), get_available_radar(), get_coastal_forecast(), get_precis_forecast(), get_radar_imagery(), get_satellite_imagery(), parse_coastal_forecast(), parse_precis_forecast()

Other parse: parse_coastal_forecast(), parse_precis_forecast()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# parse the ag bulletin for Western Australia

# download to tempfile() using basename() to keep original name
utils::download.file(url = "ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDQ60604.xml",
              destfile = file.path(tempdir(),
              basename("ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDQ60604.xml")),
              mode = "wb")

parse_ag_bulletin(state = "QLD", filepath = tempdir())
}