Download WRCC data

Source: R/wrcc_downloadData.R

Request data from a particular station for the desired time period. Data are returned as a single character string containing the WRCC output.

Monitor unitIDs can be found at https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/smoke.pl.

wrcc_downloadData(
  startdate = strftime(lubridate::now(tzone = "UTC"), "%Y010101", tz = "UTC"),
  enddate = strftime(lubridate::now(tzone = "UTC"), "%Y%m%d23", tz = "UTC"),
  unitID = NULL,
  baseUrl = "https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/wea_list2.pl"
)

Arguments

startdate

desired start date (integer or character representing YYYYMMDD[HH])
enddate

desired end date (integer or character representing YYYYMMDD[HH])
unitID

station identifier (will be upcased)
baseUrl

base URL for data queries

Value

String containing WRCC output.

References

Fire Cache Smoke Monitoring Archive

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

fileString <- wrcc_downloadData(20150701, 20150930, unitID = 'SM16')
df <- wrcc_parseData(fileString)

}, silent = FALSE)
}