Read an ECA File and Add Extra Varables

Read a file as provided by the ECA Data with StatId

Usage

readECA(file, out = c("dailyMet", "data.frame"), station = NA, id = NA)

Arguments

file

The file to read as in read.table.

out

The class of the returned object. The "dailyMet" S3 class with creator dailyMet extends the data.frame by attaching some information to the data as attributes. This information inclues the name of the meteorological variable.

station, id

Optional character vectors with length one that will be attached as attributes of the object when the output class is "dailyMet".

Value

A data frame with the temperature TX, the date

Date and several functions of the Date.

A data frame with the columns read in the file and possibly also those built by the dailyMet

function.

Caution

For now, only ECA files for so called blended data are used, and the variable is assumed to be a temperature. Also the SOUID field identifying the source is discarded.

The station identifier StatId used by European Climate Assessment & Dataset project (ECA&D) https://www.ecad.eu/ is different from the one used by Météo France. Also, ECA&D makes a distinction between Station Id (StatId) and Source Id (SouId).