rdwd
An R package to select, download and read climate data from the German Weather Service.
https://github.com/brry/rdwd
Category: Atmosphere
Sub Category: Meteorological Observation and Forecast
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download climate data from DWD (German Weather Service)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/brry/rdwd
- Owner: brry
- Created: 2016-10-19T15:07:55.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-27T13:02:33.000Z (about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-17T22:43:23.182Z (10 days ago)
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd
- Size: 175 MB
- Stars: 71
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 14
- Open Issues: 5
- Releases: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
README.md
rdwd
rdwd is an R package to select, download and read climate data from the
German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD).
The DWD provides thousands of datasets with weather observations online at
opendata.dwd.de.
Since May 2019, rdwd also supports reading the Radolan (binary) raster data at
grids_germany.
rdwd is available on CRAN:
It has been presented at FOSDEM 2017
and UseR!2017 in Brussels and with a 5 Minute video at e-Rum2020,
featured in Rstudio's data package list,
written about in OSOR and used e.g. for
NDR: Starkregen im Norden.
Development of rdwd was triggered 2016 by flash flood research in Braunsbach
(1, 2,
3,
4).
- HELP NEEDED
- with the new 5-minute data (April 2022), the fileIndex etc are getting very big.
- ideas on package size reduction are welcome at https://github.com/brry/rdwd/issues/35
Documentation
A website with more information, examples, use cases and an interactive map of the DWD stations
can be found at https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd
Usage
Usage for observational weather data from the measuring stations usually looks something like the following:
# Download and install (once only):
install.packages("rdwd")
# Load the package into library (needed in every R session):
library(rdwd)
# select a dataset (e.g. last year's daily climate data from Potsdam city):
link <- selectDWD("Potsdam", res="daily", var="kl", per="recent")
# Actually download that dataset, returning the local storage file name:
file <- dataDWD(link, read=FALSE)
# Read the file from the zip folder:
clim <- readDWD(file, varnames=TRUE) # can happen directly in dataDWD
# Inspect the data.frame:
str(clim)
# Quick time series graphic:
plotDWD(clim, "FM.Windgeschwindigkeit")
For data interpolated onto a 1 km raster, including radar data up to the last hour,
see the corresponding chapter on the website.
App
Since April 2023, there is an interactive app to compare weather periods:
With rdwd::app(), you can run this locally with cached data, i.e. faster responses.
New to R
If you're new to R, these links might help you to get started:
back to rdwd:
Installation
Normal
install.packages("rdwd")
Latest version
rdwd::updateRdwd()
# checks version and (if needed) calls remotes::install_github("brry/rdwd", build_vignettes=TRUE)
Full
Suggested (not mandatory) dependencies:
install.packages("rdwd", dependencies="Suggests")
RCurlfor indexFTP and selectDWD(..., current=TRUE)data.table,bit64for readDWD(..., fread=TRUE)terra,stars,R.utils,ncdf4,dwdradarfor readDWD with gridded datareadrfor readDWD.stand(..., fast=TRUE)knitr,rmarkdown,testthat,roxygen2,devtools,remotes,XML,gsheetfor local testing, development and documentationleaflet,OSMscalefor interactive/static maps, see rJava installation tipsshinyfor the interactive weather comparison app
Note: on Linux (Ubuntu), install RCurl via the terminal (CTRL+ALT+T, note lowercase rcurl):
sudo apt install r-cran-rcurl
Owner metadata
- Name: Berry Boessenkool
- Login: brry
- Email:
- Kind: user
- Description:
- Website: https://brry.github.io
- Location: Potsdam, Germany
- Twitter:
- Company:
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8860095?v=4
- Repositories: 39
- Last ynced at: 2024-06-11T15:37:35.694Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/brry
GitHub Events
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- Issues event: 2
- Watch event: 2
- Issue comment event: 5
- Push event: 7
- Fork event: 2
Last Year
- Issues event: 2
- Watch event: 2
- Issue comment event: 5
- Push event: 7
- Fork event: 2
Committers metadata
Last synced: 7 days ago
Total Commits: 894
Total Committers: 3
Avg Commits per committer: 298.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.008
Commits in past year: 33
Committers in past year: 2
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 16.5
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.03
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| brry | b****l@h****m | 887 |
| Avraham Adler | A****r@g****m | 6 |
| Markus ›fin‹ Hametner | f****b@x****g | 1 |
Committer domains:
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Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 2 days ago
Total issues: 43
Total pull requests: 3
Average time to close issues: 3 months
Average time to close pull requests: about 18 hours
Total issue authors: 24
Total pull request authors: 3
Average comments per issue: 3.05
Average comments per pull request: 1.67
Merged pull request: 3
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0
Past year issues: 3
Past year pull requests: 1
Past year average time to close issues: about 2 months
Past year average time to close pull requests: about 9 hours
Past year issue authors: 3
Past year pull request authors: 1
Past year average comments per issue: 2.67
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.0
Past year merged pull request: 1
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- brry (15)
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- rubran (2)
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Top Pull Request Authors
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- brry (1)
Top Issue Labels
- enhancement (16)
- bug (9)
- question (4)
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- invalid (3)
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Package metadata
- Total packages: 1
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Total downloads:
- cran: 571 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 42,010
- Total dependent packages: 1
- Total dependent repositories: 3
- Total versions: 16
- Total maintainers: 1
cran.r-project.org: rdwd
Select and Download Climate Data from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)
- Homepage: https://github.com/brry/rdwd
- Documentation: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rdwd/rdwd.pdf
- Licenses: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
- Latest release: 1.8.0 (published almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-25T13:03:12.499Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 16
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 3
- Downloads: 571 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 42,010
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 5.623%
- Forks count: 6.901%
- Average: 12.805%
- Docker downloads count: 14.104%
- Downloads: 15.868%
- Dependent repos count: 16.76%
- Dependent packages count: 17.575%
- Maintainers (1)
Dependencies
- R >= 2.10 depends
- berryFunctions >= 1.21.11 imports
- pbapply * imports
- OSMscale * suggests
- R.utils * suggests
- RCurl * suggests
- XML * suggests
- bit64 * suggests
- data.table * suggests
- devtools * suggests
- dwdradar * suggests
- knitr * suggests
- leaflet * suggests
- ncdf4 * suggests
- raster * suggests
- readr * suggests
- remotes * suggests
- rgdal * suggests
- rmarkdown * suggests
- roxygen2 * suggests
- sp * suggests
- stars * suggests
- terra * suggests
- testthat * suggests
Score: 16.088743871286123