The goal of ukcpR is to make it a bit easier to interact with the UK Met Office’s UK Climate Projections (UKCP) data, via its API, then work with the data produced
At the moment the package is focused on a limited number of document types, all of which are .csv files. This may expand to further document types in the future, but for now this helps in some instances. Currently you can use this package to run queries on:
- Observations from HadUK-Grid over UK for daily data
- Observations from HadUK-Grid over UK for monthly, seasonal or annual data
- Variables from local/regional/global projections over UK for monthly, seasonal or annual data
Note: this package relies on you already having a UKCP account. You will not be able to use the API without a key it provides. By default this package assumes the key will be stored as an environment variable UKCP_API_KEY in your .Renviron file, but you can overwrite if desired. It should be noted that any queries you make via the API will be logged (and results accessible) in the UKCP web interface.
You also need to have some understanding of possible values for API parameters. The nature of this package is you can freely enter any old text, and even if individual parameters are valid, they may not work in combination. Reading up/doing some trials via the UI initially will probably save a lot of frustration.
See the how-to guide for more information and examples.
Installation
You can install the development version of ukcpR as follows:
remotes::install_github("shanej90/ukcpR")