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On October 21, 2017 8:01:02 AM PDT, Miluji Sb <miluj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am trying to download data from NASA web-service.
>
>I am using the following code;
>
>for( i in 1:8) {
> target1 <- paste0("
>https://hydro1.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/daac-bin/access/timeseries.cgi?variable=NLDAS:NLDAS_FORA0125_H.002:TMP2m&location=GEOM:POINT(
>",
> cities[i, "lon_nldas"],
> ",%20", cities[i,"lat_nldas"],
>
>")&startDate=1980-01-01T00&endDate=2016-12-31T23&type=asc2")
> target2 <- paste0("/Users/dasgupta/Dropbox (FEEM)/Flu Paper/climate
>data/temperature/nldas/", # change for whatever destination
>directory
>you may prefer.
> cities[i,"city"], "_",
> cities[i,"state"], ".csv")
> download.file(url=target1, destfile=target2, method = "libcurl")
>}
>
>Any time the coordinates provided is out data coverage, the loop fails
>and
>stops. Is there any way to force R to skip the error and continue with
>the
>rest of the download?
>
>My data looks like this:
>
>dput(droplevels(head(cities, 8)))
>structure(list(city = structure(1:8, .Label = c("Boston", "Bridgeport",
>"Cambridge", "Fall River", "Hartford", "Lowell", "Lynn", "New Bedford"
>), class = "factor"), state = structure(c(2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L,
>2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c(" CT ", " MA "), class = "factor"), lon_nldas =
>c(-71.05673836,
>-73.19126922, -71.1060061, -71.14364822, -72.67401574, -71.31283992,
>-70.82521832, -70.80586599), lat_nldas = c(42.35866236, 41.18188268,
>42.36679363, 41.69735342, 41.76349276, 42.64588413, 42.46370197,
>41.63767375)), .Names = c("city", "state", "lon_nldas", "lat_nldas"
>), row.names = c(NA, 8L), class = "data.frame")
>
>Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Milu
>
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