homstart_data.RdThis function downloads and compiles the HOMSTART-project data set. The data is downloaded from the Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG, http://www.zamg.ac.at) and funded by the Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) and is free for research purposes.
homstart_data(dir = NULL, load = TRUE, tdir = NULL)The directory where the homstart.rda file should be stored.
Should the homstart data be loaded?
An optional temporary directory where all downloaded files are processed.
A data frame containing the following variables:
The daily precipitation observations.
Precipitation observations censored at 0.
Factor with levels "yes" or "no" indicating precipitation.
Factor with levels "none", "low", "medium" and "high"
indicating the amount of precipitation.
A numeric time trend
Month of of the observation.
Year of the observation.
Day of the year.
The longitude coordinate of the corresponding meteorological station.
The latitude coordinate of the corresponding meteorological station.
Factor, meteorological station identifier.
Transformed time trend for harmonic regression.
Factor, with levels "yes" and "no" indication if the observation
was measured on a weekend.
Numeric, the elevation of the meteorological station.
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Umlauf N, Mayr G, Messner J, Zeileis A (2012). Why does it always rain on me? A spatio-temporal analysis of precipitation in Austria. Austrian Journal of Statistics, 41(1), 81--92. doi:10.17713/ajs.v41i1.190
if (FALSE) homstart_data(load = TRUE)
head(homstart)
#> Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): object 'homstart' not found