When downloading time series with the
get_timeseries_tsid()
method, the ts_id
argument provides the link with the variable, location and frequency of
the time series, but not the extent/period to download.
The time period to download is defined by a combination of the
arguments from
, to
and period
.
The usage is similar with the VMM
documentation for the API itself. The main difference is that the
wateRinfo
package uses existing R functions to interpret
the date strings given by the user before sending these to the API (as a
formatted string according to %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
).
This vignette aims to briefly explain how to define the arguments.
In order to define a period, a start and end date is required.
Defining all three will result in an error, but any combination of
from/to
, from/period
and
to/period
is allowed. Moreover, if only period
or from
are defined, the waterinfo.be API will
automatically define to
as the current time. Hence,
defining the last x days/months/years/… can be achieved by only
using the period
option.
The package will both except valid date strings as well as valid date
objects (POSIXct
, POSIXt
) as input for the
from
and to
arguments. When using a string
value, it can be defined on different resolutions:
According to the lubridate
package, these orders are accepted: ymd_hms
,
ymd
, ym
, y
. As a result, also
"2017/01/01"
, "2017 01 01"
or
"20170101"
are valid date string inputs. Make sure the
order of year-month-day is respected. For example,
"01/01/2017"
, "01-01-2017"
and
"01-2017"
are NOT valid.
The period string provides a flexible way to extract a time period
starting (in combination with from
) or ending (in
combination with to
) at a given moment. Moreover, by using
only the period
as argument, it will cover all cases where
one is interested in the last x days/months/years/….
Some examples are:
P3D
: period of three daysP2Y
: period of 2 yearsPT6H
: period of 6 hoursP2DT6H
: period of 2 days and 6 hoursIn general, the period string should be provided as
P#Y#M#DT#H#M#S
, where P defines Period
(always
required!) and each # is an integer value expressing the number
of…. The codes define a specific time interval:
Y
- yearsM
- monthsD
- daysW
- weeksH
- hoursM
- minutesS
- secondsT
is required if codes about sub-day resolution (day,
minutes, hours) is part of the period string. Furthermore,
D
and W
are mutually exclusive.
More examples of valid period strings are:
P1DT12H
: period of 1 day and 12 hoursP2WT12H
: period of 2 weeks and 12 hoursP1Y6M3DT4H20M30S
: period of 1 year, six months, 3 days,
4 hours, 20 minutes and 30 secondsWhen interested in irradiance (15min frequency) data, the following stations provide time series:
## ts_id station_latitude station_longitude station_id station_no
## 1 78845042 51.27226 3.728299 12207 ME03_017
## 2 78879042 50.86149 3.411318 12209 ME05_019
## 3 78947042 51.20300 5.439589 12213 ME11_002
## 4 78913042 50.73795 5.141976 12211 ME09_012
## 5 78862042 51.24379 4.266912 12208 ME04_001
## 6 78896042 50.88663 4.094898 12210 ME07_006
## 7 78930042 51.16224 4.845708 12212 ME10_011
## station_name stationparameter_name parametertype_name
## 1 Boekhoute_ME Rad Rn
## 2 Waregem_ME Rad Rn
## 3 Overpelt_ME Rad Rn
## 4 Niel-bij-St.-Truiden_ME Rad Rn
## 5 Melsele_ME Rad Rn
## 6 Liedekerke_ME Rad Rn
## 7 Herentals_ME Rad Rn
## ts_unitsymbol dataprovider
## 1 W/m² VMM
## 2 W/m² VMM
## 3 W/m² VMM
## 4 W/m² VMM
## 5 W/m² VMM
## 6 W/m² VMM
## 7 W/m² VMM
Focusing on the data of Herentals, the ts_id
to use is
78930042
. We have different options to define the period to
get data from:
period
only:irr_lastday <- get_timeseries_tsid("78930042", period = "P1D")
ggplot(irr_lastday, aes(Timestamp, Value)) +
geom_line() + xlab("") + ylab("irradiance (W/m2)")
period
only:irr_lasthours <- get_timeseries_tsid("78930042", period = "PT12H30M")
ggplot(irr_lasthours, aes(Timestamp, Value)) +
geom_line() + xlab("") + ylab("irradiance (W/m2)")
from
and to
on month levelirr_2014 <- get_timeseries_tsid("78930042",
from = "2014-07-01",
to = "2014-08-01")
ggplot(irr_2014, aes(Timestamp, Value)) +
geom_line() + xlab("") + ylab("irradiance (W/m2)")
from
and period