R: Quick Check to see if WeatherUnderground has Weather Data for...

checkDataAvailabilityForDateRange {weatherData} | R Documentation

## Quick Check to see if WeatherUnderground has Weather Data for given station for a range of dates

### Description

Before we attempt to fetch the data for a big time interval of dates, this function is useful to see if the data even exists.

### Usage

    checkDataAvailabilityForDateRange(station_id, start_date, end_date,
      station_type = "airportCode")

### Arguments

`station_id` | is a valid 3-letter airport code or a valid Weather Station ID
`station_type` | is either `airportCode` or `id`
`start_date` | is a valid string representing a date in the past (YYYY-MM-DD, all numeric)
`end_date` | is a a valid string representing a date in the past (YYYY-MM-DD, all numeric) and is greater than start_date

### Details

This functions checks for just the first and the last date in the interval, not the days in between

### Value

1 if the Station did have weather records, 0 if nothing was found

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    data_okay <- checkDataAvailabilityForDateRange("BOS",
                                                   "2011-01-01",
                                                   "2011-03-31")

    ## End(Not run)

[Package weatherData version 0.4.1 Index]