Parse and Explore Data from Tropical-cyclone Databases • tropicalcyclones

Overview

Parse and explore data from several tropical-cyclone related databases, such as HURDAT2, HadISST1, and OISST.

Installation

The development version can be installed from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aldomann/tropicalcyclones")

Examples

Since read_hurdat2() is powered by readLines, we can use any connection, such as

Local files.
Compressed files.
Remote URLs.

hurr_obs_natl <- tropicalcyclones::read_hurdat2("hurdat2-1851-2016-apr2017.txt")

hurr_obs_natl <- tropicalcyclones::read_hurdat2("https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/hurdat2.html")