R package for Datapoint

[Neil Charles]

Any R users in the group might be interested in this one. I searched and couldn't find an R package for Datapoint so built a small one that facilitates searching for sites and retrieving forecast and past 24 hours observation data.

https://github.com/neilcharles/meteoR

I haven't implemented other parts of the API yet because I don't have a need for them myself, but shout if they'd be useful and I'd be happy to take a look.

[dhin...@djhindley.com]

Hi - this looks very useful, but I am having trouble installing it.  It might be a generic error with my Rstudio/R set up (something perhaps to do with spaces in my temp directory - which makes it difficult for me to use devtools - see below). I tried using a different approach - "githubinstall" package, and that seems to suggest your repo is not registered and that there is another package called meteoR from "eliocamp", so I can't install your meteoR using githubinstall package.  Any ideas welcome, as I'd really like to try your package. Thanks.

> devtools::install_github("neilcharles/meteoR")

Downloading GitHub repo neilcharles/meteoR@master

from URL https://api.github.com/repos/neilcharles/meteoR/zipball/master

Installing meteoR

"C:/Software/R/R-3.3.2/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL "C:/Users/David  \

  Hindley/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpGYCeF7/devtools61c7fab534f/neilcharles-meteoR-276bbd3"  \

  --library="C:/Software/R/R-3.3.2/library" --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'meteoR' ...

** R

** data

*** moving datasets to lazyload DB

** preparing package for lazy loading

** help

*** installing help indices

** building package indices

** testing if installed package can be loaded

*** arch - i386

Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\Users\David': Permission denied

*** arch - x64

Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\Users\David': Permission denied

ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'

* removing 'C:/Software/R/R-3.3.2/library/meteoR'

Installation failed: Command failed (1)

[Neil Charles]

I'm not expert enough in R package naming to be able to help, sorry. I picked a name that's not on CRAN but didn't check github for other possible clashes.

Not being able to use devtools::install_github sounds like a pain!

You should be able to download the whole github project to a folder. If you then open it as a project in RStudio you can compile it yourself and install it manually.