ROpenWeatherMap

1.1

R Interface to OpenWeatherMap API

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mukul ChawareFirst published 2016-03-161 releasesCRAN page ↗

OpenWeatherMap (OWM) http://openweathermap.org/api is a service providing weather related data. This package can be used to access current weather data for one location or several locations. It can also be used to forecast weather for 5 days with data for every 3 hours.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ROpenWeatherMap", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ropenweathermap

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ROpenWeatherMap

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Dependencies

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-16
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.4 KB
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