Message-ID: <7d7651d5-87fa-5a5e-1506-7cca51adaec7@sapo.pt>
Date: 2022-09-25T20:07:47Z
From: Rui Barradas
Subject: reading text files directly into program from net
In-Reply-To: <CABxY9BMgDOWNfMk3-xy+5qY8oMZoYJ_SHLiTAJnT8t=8TgzzaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
Inline.
?s 09:53 de 25/09/2022, Nick Wray escreveu:
> Hello I am working with daily rainfall data for the UK from 1915 onwards
> from the Met Office. The data is on this site:
>
> https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-daily-rain-obs/dataset-version-201901
>
> There are many files for the different counties. For example there are
> seven station files for Berwickshire in this site:
>
> https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-daily-rain-obs/dataset-version-201901/berwickshire
>
>
> The first station in this dataset
> has the name 00265_mertoun
> <https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-midas-open/data/uk-daily-rain-obs/dataset-version-201901/berwickshire/00265_mertoun>
> which
> is a code and location name, again for example, and inside is a text file
The file is a csv file and there are also two directories
qc-version-0 empty
qc-version-1 has 10 csv files spanning the years 1961-1970
Which files do you want, these last ones?
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
>
> It's easy but time-consuming to download the files one by one - I am sure
> that it is possible to read them directly into an R program but whatever
> coding or path I try to use I get an error. I can't find an example online
> which I can tweak to allow me to do this.
>
> can anyone help? Thanks Nick Wray
>
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