Resourcecode

The goal of {resourcecode} is to provide an easy access to the Resourcecode hindcast database of sea-states. More information on the database can be found here. This website only contains information about the way to retrieve data from this data base and the functionalities offred by this package.

Installation

The package is not yet on CRAN. Meanwhile, you can install the development version of {resourcecode} like so:

devtools::install_github('Resourcecode-project/r-resourcecode')

Examples

Plot the bathymetry used in the project

library(resourcecode)
resourcecode::rscd_mapplot(resourcecode::rscd_field$depth,name = "Depth (m)",transform = "sqrt")

See the variables available in the database:

rscd_variables
#> # A tibble: 88 × 3
#>    name      longname                           unit          
#>    <chr>     <chr>                              <chr>         
#>  1 longitude longitude                          "degree_east" 
#>  2 latitude  latitude                           "degree_north"
#>  3 tri       tri                                ""            
#>  4 MAPSTA    status map                         "1"           
#>  5 dpt       depth                              "m"           
#>  6 ucur      eastward current                   "m s-1"       
#>  7 vcur      northward current                  "m s-1"       
#>  8 uwnd      eastward_wind                      "m s-1"       
#>  9 vwnd      northward_wind                     "m s-1"       
#> 10 wlv       sea surface height above sea level "m"           
#> # ℹ 78 more rows

Download a time series of significant wave height next to the coast of Finistère:

data = get_parameters(node="134865",parameters = "hs")
str(data)
#> tibble [8,760 × 2] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame)
#>  $ time: POSIXct[1:8760], format: "1994-01-01 01:00:00" "1994-01-01 02:00:00" ...
#>  $ hs  : num [1:8760] 4.98 5.19 5.37 5.48 5.52 ...
#>  - attr(*, "node")= num 134864
plot(data,type='l')