| Type: | Package | 
| Title: | Interface with the Meteo France Synop Data API | 
| Version: | 0.1.2 | 
| Date: | 2018-11-01 | 
| Description: | Provides an interface with the Meteo France Synop data API (see https://donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr/?fond=produit&id_produit=90&id_rubrique=32 for more information). The Meteo France Synop data are made of meteorological data recorded every three hours on 62 French meteorological stations. | 
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE | 
| LazyData: | TRUE | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.1.3) | 
| Imports: | foreach, readr, stringr, tibble, utils | 
| URL: | https://github.com/paulponcet/metsyn | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/paulponcet/metsyn/issues | 
| RoxygenNote: | 6.1.0 | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Packaged: | 2018-11-02 16:22:09 UTC; YL1101 | 
| Author: | Paul Poncet [aut, cre] | 
| Maintainer: | Paul Poncet <paulponcet@yahoo.fr> | 
| Repository: | CRAN | 
| Date/Publication: | 2018-11-14 09:20:06 UTC | 
Download Meteo France Synop Data
Description
The functions download_daily_synop and 
download_monthly_synop enable to download Meteo France 
Synop Data described 
here.
Usage
download_daily_synop(path = ".", date, ...)
download_monthly_synop(path = ".", date, ...)
Arguments
| path | character. Data once downloaded are saved in the folder 
 | 
| date | character. 
For  | 
| ... | Additional parameters to be passed to  | 
See Also
Creation of the 'metdes' dataset, made of descriptive information on the 'metsyn' dataset
Description
The function make_metdes creates the metdes 
dataset, which contains descriptive information on the 
metsyn dataset. 
The dataset contains the following columns:
-  Short_Name: short name of the variable, in French;
-  Long_name_French: name of the variable, in French;
-  Long_Name_English: currently not provided yet;
-  Type: type of the variable (one ofcharacter,numeric,integer);
-  Unit: physical unit of the variable.
Usage
make_metdes(path = ".", save_it = FALSE)
Arguments
| path | character. Data once created are saved in the folder 
 | 
| save_it | logical. If  | 
Value
Returns invisibly the tibble created, with 5 columns and 59 rows.
Note
This dataset is distributed by Meteo France under the terms of the Open Licence 1.0, provided by Etalab and designed to be compatible with the "Creative Commons Attribution 2.0" (CC-BY 2.0) licence of Creative Commons. Etalab is the task force under the French Prime Minister's authority leading Open Government Data policy for France.
Source
Meteo France, see here.
See Also
metsyn for the dataset containing Meteo France 
Synop data; 
metsta for the dataset on the meteorological stations 
involved.
Examples
## Not run: 
make_metdes(save_it = TRUE)
## End(Not run)
Creation of the 'metsta' dataset made of Meteo France Synop meteorogical stations
Description
The function make_metsta creates the metsta 
dataset from the file postesSynop.csv downloaded 
here. 
make_metsta looks for this file in the 
file.path(path, "data-raw") folder. 
This dataset contains the following columns:
-  Id: WMO meteorological station id;
-  Name: name of the meteorological station;
-  Latitude,Longitude,Altitude: coordinates of the meteorological station.
Usage
make_metsta(path = ".", save_it = FALSE)
Arguments
| path | character. Data once created are saved in the folder 
 | 
| save_it | logical. If  | 
Value
Returns invisibly the tibble created, with 5 columns and 62 rows.
Note
This dataset is distributed by Meteo France under the terms of the Open Licence 1.0, provided by Etalab and designed to be compatible with the "Creative Commons Attribution 2.0" (CC-BY 2.0) licence of Creative Commons. Etalab is the task force under the French Prime Minister's authority leading Open Government Data policy for France.
Source
Meteo France, see here.
See Also
metsyn for the dataset containing Meteo France 
Synop data; 
metdes for the dataset which gives some descriptive 
information on metsyn.
Examples
## Not run: 
dir.create("data-raw", showWarnings = FALSE)
make_metsta(save_it = TRUE)
## End(Not run)
Creation of the 'metsyn' dataset made of Meteo France Synop data
Description
The function make_metsyn creates the metsyn 
dataset from the files downloaded with 
download_monthly_synop. 
make_metsyn looks for these files in the 
file.path(path, "data-raw") folder. 
This dataset is made of meteorological data recorded every three hours on 62 French meteorological stations.
The columns contained in this dataset are described by the 
metdes dataset.
Usage
make_metsyn(path = ".", save_it = FALSE)
Arguments
| path | character. Data once created are saved in the folder 
 | 
| save_it | logical. If  | 
Value
Returns invisibly the tibble created, with 59 columns.
Note
This dataset is distributed by Meteo France under the terms of the Open Licence 1.0, provided by Etalab and designed to be compatible with the "Creative Commons Attribution 2.0" (CC-BY 2.0) licence of Creative Commons. Etalab is the task force under the French Prime Minister's authority leading Open Government Data policy for France.
Source
Meteo France, see here.
See Also
download_monthly_synop; 
metdes for the dataset which gives some descriptive 
information on metsyn; 
metsta for the dataset on the meteorological stations 
involved.
Examples
## Not run: 
dir.create("data-raw", showWarnings = FALSE)
for (y in 1996:2016) {
  for (m in 1:12) {
    m <- if (m < 10) paste0(0, m) else m
    download_monthly_synop(date = paste0(y, m), 
                           mode = "wb")
  }
}
make_metsyn(save_it = TRUE)
## End(Not run)