Description
Read Binary Radar Files from 'DWD' (German Weather Service).
Description
The 'DWD' provides gridded radar data for Germany in binary format. 'dwdradar' reads these files and enables a fast conversion into numerical format.
README.md
dwdradar
read DWD binary radar files (RADOLAN).
This is an auxiliary package to rdwd.dwdradar
is used in some of the functions underlying readDWD()
, see the raster chapter in the documentation.
Installation
Regular:
install.packages("dwdradar")
Latest version:
Note: on Windows, you need to have Rtools installed directly at C:/Rtools
(Compiler paths may not have spaces, as there would be with C:/Program Files/R/Rtools/
).
if(!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly=TRUE)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("brry/dwdradar")
History
The main function, readRadarFile
, was originally developed inside the rdwd
package, see version history there.
Development since Oct 2019 can be tracked in the corresponding dwdradar version history.