Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Stubben
tlevine wrote: > > The NOAA has very promising tabular forecasts > (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Ithaca&state=NY&site=BGM&textField1=42.4422&textField2=-76.5002&e=0&FcstType=digital), > but I can't figure out how to import them. > Sometimes you can just use gsub to get htm

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-27 Thread James Muller
Can I just say, it's great to see the R community really come out in support of such a noble and worthy cause as this :). Downfall of civilization, all that. Not here, no! James On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Thomas Levine wrote: > I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should we

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-27 Thread Thomas Levine
r-project.org >>[mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Im Auftrag von Scillieri, John >>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 22:58 >>An: 'James Muller'; 'r-help@r-project.org' >>Betreff: Re: [R] Download daily weather data >> >>Looks like y

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-27 Thread Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.
n...@r-project.org >[mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Im Auftrag von Scillieri, John >Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 22:58 >An: 'James Muller'; 'r-help@r-project.org' >Betreff: Re: [R] Download daily weather data > >Looks like you can sign up t

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Thomas Levine
Perhaps "coat" and "jacket" are more ambiguous in the United States than the United Kingdom. If it's cold enough to warrant it, I wear a jacket in the morning. If it isn't, I don't want to have to carry it around all day. Checking the daily weather forecast is too much work, so I just go by the cur

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread hadley wickham
See also http://umbrellatoday.com/ Hadley On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Levine wrote: > I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should wear a coat, > so I'd like to be able to download daily weather forecasts and daily > reports of recent past weather conditions. > > The NOAA

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2009/2/26 Thomas Levine : > I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should wear a coat, > so I'd like to be able to download daily weather forecasts and daily > reports of recent past weather conditions. > > The NOAA has very promising tabular forecasts > (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapC

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
James Muller wrote: > Yes, as a general thing go to regular expressions if you don't have an > existing library available to do the same thing (or you're lazy like > me:). > > many things are simply *much* easier with xpath than with regexes, and with the XML package you got it for free. vQ

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread James Muller
Yes, as a general thing go to regular expressions if you don't have an existing library available to do the same thing (or you're lazy like me:). Jame On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Scillieri, John wrote: >> Looks like you can sign up to get XML feed data from Weathe

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
than regular expressions. vQ > Hope it works out! > > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of James Muller > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:57 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Do

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Scillieri, John
PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Download daily weather data Thomas, Have a look at the source code for the webpage (ctrl-u in firefox, don't know in internet explorer, etc.). That is what you'd have to parse in order to get the forecast from this page. Typically when I pars

Re: [R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread James Muller
Thomas, Have a look at the source code for the webpage (ctrl-u in firefox, don't know in internet explorer, etc.). That is what you'd have to parse in order to get the forecast from this page. Typically when I parse webpages such as this I use regular expressions to do so (and I would never downpl

[R] Download daily weather data

2009-02-26 Thread Thomas Levine
I'm writing a program that will tell me whether I should wear a coat, so I'd like to be able to download daily weather forecasts and daily reports of recent past weather conditions. The NOAA has very promising tabular forecasts (http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Ithaca&state=NY&sit