Find a "Meteo France" Station using a Description, Id or Name

Find a "Météo France" station using a description, code or name.

Usage

findStationMF(desc = NULL, id = NULL, name = NULL, one = TRUE)

Arguments

desc: A character string to be matched against the description of the station.
id: A character string to be matched against the identifier (id) of the station.
name: A character string to be matched against the name of the station. Character case and accents are likely to generate problems.
one: Logical. If TRUE the selection must correspond to exactly one station.

Value

A one-row data frame with several elements giving the code, the name, the directory name for the station. The column Dir gives the (a possible) name of for a directory containing the data.

Note

By construction, this function can only find one function in order to allow automated treatments. When several stations match, an error with a suitable message is thrown.

Author

Yves Deville

Examples


findStationMF(desc = "rennes-st")
#>                Desc    Id              Name      Lat    Lon Alt
#> 1 rennes-st-jacques 07130 RENNES-ST JACQUES 48.06883 -1.734  36
#>                       Dir
#> 1 07130_rennes-st-jacques
findStationMF(desc = "troy")
#>              Desc    Id            Name      Lat  Lon Alt                   Dir
#> 1 troyes-barberey 07168 TROYES-BARBEREY 48.32467 4.02 112 07168_troyes-barberey
## error
try(findStationMF(desc = "tro"))
#> Several matches found:
#> 1 troyes-barberey 07168
#> 2 serge-frolow-ile-tromelin 61976
#> Error in findStationMF(desc = "tro") : 
#>   several stations match. Hint. use 'id ='