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.