Scraping weather data from the internet with R and the tidyverse (CC231)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2022-07-18

R has powerful but simple tools that allow for easy scraping of the internet. In this episode, Pat will show you how to track down local weather data from the NOAA website and make it accessible within your R session in RStudio using tools from the tidyverse including dplyr, lubridate, and more

You can find my blog post for this episode at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2022-07-18-local-weather.

#tidyverse #R #Rstudio #reproducibility #Rstats

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0:00 Introduction
1:04 Finding weather station data at NOAA
8:06 Finding the closest weather station
17:47 Get and tidy local weather station data