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# pmetar
Package allows to download current and historical METAR weather reports and decode basic parameters.

<h4><b>METAR weather reports source web pages</b></h4>
<p>The function metar_get scraps data from two web pages:<br>
<ol>
<li>For current reports: Aviation Weather Center https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar</li><br>
<li>For historical reports: <br>
<ul>
<li>Iowa Environmental Mesonet web page of Iowa State University
ASOS-AWOS-METAR http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/AWOS/</li>
<li>Weather Information Service http://www.ogimet.com/ developed by Guillermo Ballester Valor</li>
</ul></ol>
Please take into consideration that the http://www.ogimet.com/ can block too frequent requests for data due to the server overload. <br>
<br><h4><b>Locations of METAR stations</b></h4>
<p>Information about the locations of the METAR stations / ariports were taken from two sources:<br>
<ol>
<li> The first choice is the file from https://ourairports.com/data/ created by David Megginson.</li>
<li> If information can't be found, the second source is searched, the ADDS Station Table prepared by Greg Thompson NCAR/RAP. The file is available on the web page of Aviation Weather Center https://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt
from NOAA National Weather Service https://www.weather.gov/</li>
</ol>

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[![cran
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Package allows to download current and historical METAR weather reports
and decode basic parameters.

### METAR weather reports source web pages

The function metar\_get scraps data from two web pages:

1. For current reports:

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- Aviation Weather Center <https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar>
</li>
<br>

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2. For historical reports:

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- Iowa Environmental Mesonet web page of Iowa State University
ASOS-AWOS-METAR <http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/AWOS/>
</li>
- Weather Information Service <http://www.ogimet.com/> developed by
Guillermo Ballester Valor

Please take into consideration that the <http://www.ogimet.com/> can
block too frequent requests for data due to the server overload. <br>

### Locations of METAR stations

Information about the locations of the METAR stations / ariports were
taken from two sources:

1. The first choice is the file from <https://ourairports.com/data/>
created by David Megginson.
2. If information can’t be found, the second source is searched, the
ADDS Station Table prepared by Greg Thompson NCAR/RAP. The file is
available on the web page of Aviation Weather Center
<https://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt> from NOAA
National Weather Service <https://www.weather.gov/>

The both above data sources are in the public domain.
<br><br>
<h4><b>Package pmetar is for extracting and parsing information, from current or historical METAR reports, only.
<br><br>
Don't use it for flight planning or navigation.</b></h4>

#### Package pmetar is for extracting and parsing information, from current or historical METAR reports, only.

#### Don’t use it for flight planning or navigation.

### Installation

CRAN version

``` r
install.packages("pmetar")
```

Dev version

``` r
remotes::install_github("prcwiek/pmetar")
```

``` r
library('pmetar')
```

## Contributors

- David Megginson, Author of data set with airports list
<https://ourairports.com/data/>
- Greg Thompson, Author of data set with airports list
<https://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt>

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