SILODownload function

Download SILO data

Download SILO data

SILODownload( SiteList, username = "noemail@net.com", password = "gui", path = getwd(), startdate = "18890101", enddate = NULL, ssl = FALSE )

Arguments

  • SiteList: A station number or vector of station numbers, as a string (e.g. "24001")
  • username: SILO user name. Defaults to credentials used by https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/point-data/
  • password: SILO password
  • path: Where to save the output. Will default to getwd() if not specified
  • startdate: First day of data, in the format "YYYYMMDD". Will default to the first day of the record "18890101" if not specified
  • enddate: Last day of data, in the format "YYYYMMDD". Will default to yesterday if not specified
  • ssl: if true set ssl_cipher_list to "RC4-SHA" for file download. Seems to be necessary on some machines. default to FALSE

Returns

A file for each station will be saved to path, named station number.txt. Nothing is returned to the R environment.

Examples

## Not run: SILODownload(c("24001","24002","24003"), path=tempdir(), startdate="20180101",enddate="20200101") ## End(Not run)