This package allows to get weather data from ASOS stations (airports) via the great website of the Iowa Environment Mesonet.

Installation

Install the package with:

install.packages("riem")

Or install the development version using devtools with:

library("pak")
pak::pak("ropensci/riem")

Documentation

Please refer to the pkgdown website to read docs, in particular the reference and the vignettes.

Breaking changes in riem 1.0.0

The latlon argument of riem_measures() default to FALSE: you need to explicitly set it to TRUE for the latitude and longitude of the station to be included in the output.

The date_start and station no longer have default values.

Use cases in the wild

Submit your use cases!

• @maelle's Where to live in the US

• @Ryo-N7's Where to live in Japan: XKCD-themed climate plots and maps!

• @sharlagelfand's Oh, the cold places I've lived

• In a course: @byuidatascience's M335 Task 15: How is the weather?

• @jhchou developed an R Shiny app that allows interactive analysis of 20+ years of hourly METAR data of flight conditions by time of day and month at multiple airports. Blog post

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• License: GPL
• Get citation information for ropenaq in R doing citation(package = 'riem')
• Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.