I keep getting errors in my attempt to pull weather data for Detroit airport. I am able to manually go to wunderground.com to get the historical hourly data, so it does exist there for Detroit location. But R package keeps sending me errors. I used "KDTW" for the airport code but it did not work. I tried "72537" for the station ID, which I got by using getStationCode("Detroit). I will appreciate any help with getting hour historical data for any close to Detroit station for the time interval January 1, 2017 through March 28, 2017.
Here is what I tried:
install.packages("weatherData")
library ('weatherData')
getStationCode("Detroit")
checkDataAvailabilityForDateRange(station_type ="KARB", start_date="2017-01-01", end_date="2017-03-28")
checkDataAvailabilityForDateRange(station_id ="KDTW", start_date="2017-01-01", end_date="2017-03-28")
Thank you!
I was able to get the weather data for KDTW.
temp <- getWeatherForDate(station_id = "KDTW", start_date = "2017-01-01", end_date="2017-01-10")
Here is my output for the date range
structure(c("Min. :2017-01-01 00:00:00 ", "1st Qu.:2017-01-03 06:00:00 ",
"Median :2017-01-05 12:00:00 ", "Mean :2017-01-05 12:00:00 ",
"3rd Qu.:2017-01-07 18:00:00 ", "Max. :2017-01-10 00:00:00 ",
"Min. :17.0 ", "1st Qu.:18.5 ", "Median :34.5 ", "Mean :31.9 ",
"3rd Qu.:42.5 ", "Max. :49.0 ", "Min. :11.00 ", "1st Qu.:13.75 ",
"Median :26.50 ", "Mean :25.20 ", "3rd Qu.:34.25 ", "Max. :41.00 ",
"Min. : 5.0 ", "1st Qu.: 9.0 ", "Median :17.5 ", "Mean :18.2 ",
"3rd Qu.:26.0 ", "Max. :37.0 "), .Dim = c(6L, 4L), .Dimnames = list(
c("", "", "", "", "", ""), c(" Date", "Max_TemperatureF",
"Mean_TemperatureF", "Min_TemperatureF")), class = "table")
I just got temperature data, but if you'd like, you can also get other information (like humidity, cloud cover, etc) by changing the opt_all_columns flag to TRUE.
Hope that Helps!
Edit: Looking at your code you have station_type ="KARB" Did you mean that to be station_id?