canadaHCD Canadian historical climate data

What is canadaHCD?

The Government of Canada’s Historical Climate Data website provides access to hourly, daily, and monthly weather records for stations throughout Canada. These data are exposed through a simple web-based API that facilitates retrieval of data for one or more of the three period in CSV or XML format. canadaHCD provides an R-based interface to that API, taking care of forming the correct URL for a data set and of reading the different file formats.

Bugs, feature requests

canadaHCD is still pre-beta code. Please file bug reports or feature requests as Issues on the project’s github page

Features

• download monthly, daily, or hourly data from Government of Canada’s Historical Climate Data website,
• search for weather station meta data from the Canadian Historical Climate Data records

Licence

canadaHCD is released under the GNU General Public Licence Version 2.