Retrieve Gridded Weather Data from SILO — silo

Downloads weather records from the SILO Gridded Dataset API (https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/api-documentation/) for a specified location and date range.

Usage

silo_grid(
  lon,
  lat,
  email,
  start = as.Date("1889-01-01"),
  finish = Sys.Date(),
  format = c("apsim", "standard"),
  outfile = NULL
)

Arguments

lon: Numeric. Longitude of the location.
lat: Numeric. Latitude of the location.
email: Character. Email address required for API access.
start: Date or character. Start date of the data request (in "YYYY-MM-DD" format).
finish: Date or character. End date of the data request (in "YYYY-MM-DD" format).
format: Character. Data format to request from the API (e.g., "csv", "json").
outfile: Character. Path to the output file where data will be saved.

Value

Invisibly returns NULL. The function is called for its side effect of downloading and saving the data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_silo_data(
  lon = 151.2,
  lat = -27.5,
  start = "2020-01-01",
  finish = "2020-12-31",
  email = "user@example.com",
  format = "csv",
  output_format = "apsim",
  outfile = "weather.apsim"
)
} # }