On Feb 5, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Alexandra Catena wrote:
Thank you guys for the response.
I'm trying to download the last ten years of meteorology data from a
weather station in Livermore from the URL:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/2015/724927-23285-2015.gz
The Livermore station code
Thank you guys for the response.
I'm trying to download the last ten years of meteorology data from a
weather station in Livermore from the URL:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/2015/724927-23285-2015.gz
The Livermore station code is 724927-23285. If I wanted to download data
from 2005, the
In addition to following Jim's suggestion, you should probably also use
full.names = TRUE, otherwise you will try to open a connection to files
in your current directory, not in tmpdir.
Another thing is that the unzipped files appear irregular with respect
to columns, so read.table might not
try taking the quotes off of 'files'
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru
What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alexandra Catena amc5...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I need to loop through and download
Dunno. Try posting your current code that fixes the previously mentioned
problems, but this time use plain text so the HTML doesn't corrupt it.
Usually you can solve this kind of issue by executing one line at a time and
looking at each result to make sure it is what you think it is. You can
Hi All,
I need to loop through and download the past 10 years of met data to a
temporary directory. I then need to unzip it and place it into another
directory.
year = (2005:2015)
for (i in year)
tmpdir = tempdir()
file[i] = file.path(tmpdir, sprintf('724927-23285-%4i.gz', i))
url =
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