Datasets

Returns available data sets. Note that the current default is set to type = "station" (see gs_datasets()) as this package only allows for downloading stationdata.

library("gsdata")
(ds <- gs_datasets())

##       type       mode    resource_id data_format response_formats
## 1  station historical  histalp-v1-1y     station      geojson|csv
## 2  station historical    klima-v1-1d     station      geojson|csv
## 3  station historical    klima-v1-1h     station      geojson|csv
## 4  station historical    klima-v1-1m     station      geojson|csv
## 5  station historical klima-v1-10min     station      geojson|csv
## 6  station historical    klima-v2-1d     station      geojson|csv
## 7  station historical    klima-v2-1h     station      geojson|csv
## 8  station historical    klima-v2-1m     station      geojson|csv
## 9  station historical klima-v2-10min     station      geojson|csv
## 10 station historical    klima-v2-1y     station      geojson|csv
## 11 station historical tawes-v1-10min     station      geojson|csv
## 12 station    current tawes-v1-10min     station      geojson|csv
## 13 station historical    synop-v1-1h     station      geojson|csv
##                                                                          url
## 1   https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/histalp-v1-1y
## 2     https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v1-1d
## 3     https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v1-1h
## 4     https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v1-1m
## 5  https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v1-10min
## 6     https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v2-1d
## 7     https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v2-1h
## 8     https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v2-1m
## 9  https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v2-10min
## 10    https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/klima-v2-1y
## 11 https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/tawes-v1-10min
## 12    https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/current/tawes-v1-10min
## 13    https://dataset.api.hub.geosphere.at/v1/station/historical/synop-v1-1h

The function gs_datasets() returns a data.frame which includes a series of information including:

type: data set type (currently defaults to type = "station")
mode: historical or current (latest available observation)
resource_id: ID/name of the dataset or resource
… and some more

Most important are type, mode and resource_id which allow to download additional meta data (see gs_metadata()) as well as the data itself (see gs_stationdata()).

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