R client package for the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) open data API. fmi2 provides access to a subset of the FMI download service. FMI maintains and is reponsible for the data available through their API, but has no official connections to fmi2.
All data from the FMI is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Installation
fmi2 is not yet on CRAN, but you can install the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rOpenGov/fmi2")Details
Currently, the following FMI stored queries are avaible in fmi2:
| Stored query | Description | No. parameters | fmi2 function name |
|---|---|---|---|
| fmi::ef::stations | Environmental Monitoring Stations | 4 | fmi_stations |
| fmi::observations::weather::daily::simple | Daily Weather Observations | 11 | obs_weather_daily |
| fmi::observations::weather::hourly::simple | Hourly Weather Observations | 12 | obs_weather_hourly |
More data sets and queries may be wrapped in the future.
Example
For usage examples, see the package function reference and the following vignettes:
Contributing
If you have a particular need in mind, you’re free to:
- Fork the repository, modify the code and leave a pull request.
- Leave an issue with a description on the improvements.
Why fmi2?
If this is fmi2, where’s the first fmi!? Good question, fmi can be found here and is no longer developed or maintained. fmi was developed back in the day when accessing data from a WFS in R was much more difficult. Hence, the package is much more complicated than fmi2 and too laborious to maintain.