R: Access Canadian Historical Climate Data

# Access Canadian Historical Climate Data

## Documentation for package ‘chcd’ version 0.1.1

- DESCRIPTION file
- Package NEWS

## Help Pages

build_url | Build a valid URL for downloading a file from CHCD. Follows the format detailed here <https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/climate/Get_More_Data_Plus_de_donnees/>.
dl_csv | Downloads a csv from the internet
get_climatedata | Get historical climate data for the specified time and place. The data returned will be raw data as originally reported. As many weather stations historically use manual entry to report this data this is likely to mean that data cleaning will be required for sensible usage.
get_station | Find climate station or stations from a given place. This also confirms if a given climate station ID is valid.
get_timecode | Converts a text based interval into a CHCD timecode
stations_near | Finds climate stations near to a given location.
test_climatefile | Given a file and a list of expected columns this will test to make sure our data looks good. Returns TRUE if all expected columns are present in the file, otherwise returns FALSE.