The function tsGRDC() is currently failing because GRDC has recently changed the format of the monthly data.

x <- tsGRDC(stationID = 1107700)

This returns the error: " cannot open the connection"

Hi @cvitolo - i noticed you have used releases in the past - but the most recent CRAN version doesn't have a v0.6.0 git tag or release notes for that tag - can you add your news bits for that version to a release?

I see this problem, happy to help figure it out but for now I'll just post the details.

library(hddtools)
# Define a bounding box
bbox <- list(lonMin=-10,latMin=48,lonMax=5,latMax=62)

# Define a temporal extent
timeExtent <- seq(as.Date('2012-01-01'), as.Date('2012-03-31'), by='months')

KGClimateClass(bbox,updatedBy='Peel')
# Error in readBin(tarfile, "raw", n = 3L) : 
#   can only read from a binary connection
# In addition: Warning message:
#   In file(con, "rb") :
#   file("") only supports open = "w+" and open = "w+b": using the former

devtools::session_info()
# Session info -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#   setting  value                                      
# version  R version 3.3.1 Patched (2016-10-08 r71472)
# system   x86_64, mingw32                            
# ui       RStudio (1.0.35)                           
# language (EN)                                       
# collate  English_Australia.1252                     
# tz       Australia/Hobart                           
# date     2016-10-11 

Or a new maintainer team 😃

If you're interested, please comment in the issue.
For more info, see

• our guidance on Changing package maintainers;
• our Package Curation Policy.

It seems like https://hydrology.nws.noaa.gov/gcip/mopex/US_Data/ is unreachable thus cannot be accessed by hddtools.

Did the dataset get moved to a new URL or is the access down?

Dear Claudia,
please help resolving this issue:
`library(hddtools)

areaBox <- raster::extent(98.5, 105.5, 51.7, 56.5)

GRDC_catalogue_bratsk <- catalogueGRDC(areaBox = areaBox)

bratsk <- tsGRDC(stationID = GRDC_catalogue_bratsk$grdc_no, plotOption = TRUE)`

The code ends with an error:
`Using cached data.

Error in charToRaw(URL) : argument must be a character vector of length 1`

Thanks in advance!

The function tsGRDC is missing in the current version.

Migrate CI from travis-ci.org to GitHub Actions

The rnrfa package is used here only to get coordinates of some hydrological stations. If the nrfa catalogue is saved within the package, the dependency can be remove safely as the coordinates are not expected to change in the future.

This issue is part of this ropensci review

@ledell said:

Found a possible bug:
library(raster)
Loading required package: sp
b <- brick('trmm_acc.tif')
plot(b)
Error in graphics::par(old.par) :
invalid value specified for graphical parameter "pin"

@cvitolo Did you see that it was archived on cran? I imagine so, but jut in case i'm checking in.

This issue is part of this ropensci review.

@mdsumner suggested:
"clarify in comments that filter is bbox plus "keep only those where "statistics" value is 1"

I have added comments when I filtered using bbox but the last part of your suggestion is not clear to me, could you please clarify?

It would be great to have more datasets, one example is the real-time precipitation data from the UK MetOffice (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product).

Hi Claudia,

In your rOpenSci blog post on hddtools, this link is broken: http://pennine.ddns.me.uk/riverlevels/ConciseList.html and I can't find a replacement. Do you have a new link for it?

tsMOPEX)_ cannot pull data since its URL is outdated.
The data are now at:
https://hydrology.nws.noaa.gov/gcip/mopex/US_Data/
I am able to pull data from this location using the read.fwf call but RCurl::url.exists(theurl) still returns FALSE.

I was trying to get mddPerYear of all the European stations. I have a problem when trying to download some stations, for example 6502110.
If:

tt <- tsGRDC(stationID = '6502110')
Station does not have monthly records

And then tt is empty, a NULL. But if I download the data from the ftp, i.e. the file europe.zip at ftp://ftp.bafg.de/pub/REFERATE/GRDC/ltdata/ that stations is not empty (here the file https://cl.ly/1H2I1Y2l3G06 )
I have tried to find an explanation on the documentation but nothing...can you help me?
UPDATE: looking in the code I can see that the function retrieves only the stations where the statistics field is 1, but I still don't understand...

Seems like there's no NEWS on the CRAN page for your package https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hddtools/index.html - Remove https://github.com/ropensci/hddtools/blob/master/.Rbuildignore#L12 and then NEWS will show up on the CRAN page,

also, there's no news for this current CRAN version in your news file.

and please do git tag each CRAN version and update your release notes associated with that tag

thanks! -S

It would be great to add more examples of how this package could be used, e.g. in climate and hydrological research projects.

I tried downloading the TRMM monthly data using the codes examples in the package,
but it showing the following error..

trying URL 'ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/3B43_V7/2009/3B43.090101.7.precipitation.accum'
trying URL 'ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/3B43_V7/2009/3B43.090201.7.precipitation.accum'
The following files are currently not available for download:

[1] "ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/3B43_V7/2009/3B43.090101.7.precipitation.accum"
[2] "ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/3B43_V7/2009/3B43.090201.7.precipitation.accum"
There are no files available, try a different temporal window.
Warning messages:
1: In download.file(url = filesURLs[j], destfile = file.path(td, basename(filesURLs[j])), :
InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The login request was denied
'
2: In download.file(url = filesURLs[j], destfile = file.path(td, basename(filesURLs[j])), :
InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The login request was denied

So that the rOpenSci newsletter might pick up the update. :-) (the next one, the one for today couldn't https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/03/16/ropensci-news)

Happy to explore this, for now just the details.

On Windows.

TRMM(timeExtent = timeExtent, bbox = bbox)
latMax of bbox is out of the maximum extent [-50,50], new latMax of bbox is modified as follows: latMax = 50

Beware this function was tested on a unix machine. If you are not using a unix machine your results could be wrong. Please report any problem to [email protected], thanks!
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
  Unable to open ...3B43.*.
No error

Error in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, objecttype = "RasterBrick", ...) : 
  Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file.

I cannot use the tool because apparently the server is not available:

> GRDC_catalogue_all <- catalogueGRDC(useCachedData = FALSE)
Retrieving data from data provider.
Error in download.file(theurl, temp, quiet = TRUE) : 
  cannot open URL 'ftp://ftp.bafg.de/pub/REFERATE/GRDC/catalogue/grdc_stations.zip'

In fact, the URL cannot be accessed. However, when you try to download data using tsGRDC the error is far less informative:

WolfeToneBridge <- tsGRDC(stationID = catalogueGRDC()$grdc_no[7126])
Using cached data.
Using cached data.
Error in download.file(zipFile, tf, quiet = TRUE) : 
  invalid 'url' argument

Running the following

m3_Malawi<- tsGRDC(stationID = "1992700", plotOption = TRUE)

I receive the following error:

Using cached data. Station has monthly records Error in matrix(no_spaces, nrow = rows_to_read, byrow = TRUE) : data is too long

What does it mean?

Hello,
is there any chance that you will include a function to download TRMM data from the archive-servers (Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (GES DISC DAAC))?
http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?project=TRMM&tree=project

The currently GRDC catalogue is obsolete, it must be udated

Hi,
Im trying to download the 3B42_v7 3 hourly data sing the TRMM function. The files get downloaded, however, I keep getting the following error:
"`D:\analysis_ravi\TRMM downlaod\kas_2016\TRMM.vrt' does not exist in the file system,
and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

In addition: There were 17 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
Error in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, objecttype = "RasterBrick", ...) :
Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file. (file does not exist)"

tried testing with 3B43_v7 dataset as well and same error.
Im using r 3.2.5 on windows 7 64-bit OS.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Regards
Manish
PhD Student
ATREE, India

https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/hddtools/

looks like they emailed you and problems weren't fixed in time. Did you need any help with the problems they emailed about?

@cvitolo i imagine you have seen this https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/hddtools/ ?

Archived on 2017-02-27 as nonportable use of 'wget' was not corrected despite repeated reminders.