new ncdc() error in v0.8

[ghaines3]

Hi Scott,
I'm getting this error from ncdc() with the new version.

station_data <- ghcnd_stations()
lat_lon_df <- data.frame(id = c("sydney", "brisbane"),
                         latitude = c(-33.8675, -27.4710),
                         longitude = c(151.2070, 153.0234))
x <-  meteo_nearby_stations(lat_lon_df = lat_lon_df,
                            station_data = station_data, radius = 10)
res <- ncdc(datasetid = "GSOY", stationid = paste0('GHCND:', x$brisbane$id), 
            startdate = "2008-01-01", enddate = "2017-12-31", datatypeid="PRCP", 
            limit = 10, token = "_______")

Error: x$response_headers$`content-type` == "application/json;charset=UTF-8" is not TRUE

Thanks very much

Session Info

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] bindrcpp_0.2.2    memisc_0.99.14.12 MASS_7.3-51.1     lattice_0.20-38  
 [5] data.table_1.11.8 plyr_1.8.4        rnoaa_0.8.0       geosphere_1.5-7  
 [9] rlist_0.4.6.1     tidyr_0.8.2      

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.0       lubridate_1.7.4  assertthat_0.2.0 digest_0.6.18   
 [5] R6_2.3.0         cellranger_1.1.0 repr_0.18        ggplot2_3.1.0   
 [9] pillar_1.3.1     rlang_0.3.0.1    lazyeval_0.2.1   curl_3.2        
[13] readxl_1.2.0     rstudioapi_0.8   car_3.0-2        urltools_1.7.1  
[17] stringr_1.3.1    foreign_0.8-71   triebeard_0.3.0  munsell_0.5.0   
[21] compiler_3.4.3   pkgconfig_2.0.2  base64enc_0.1-3  htmltools_0.3.6 
[25] tidyselect_0.2.5 tibble_1.4.2     gridExtra_2.3    httpcode_0.2.0  
[29] rio_0.5.16       XML_3.98-1.16    crayon_1.3.4     dplyr_0.7.8     
[33] hoardr_0.5.2     rappdirs_0.3.1   crul_0.6.0       grid_3.4.3      
[37] jsonlite_1.6     gtable_0.2.0     magrittr_1.5     scales_1.0.0    
[41] zip_1.0.0        stringi_1.2.4    carData_3.0-2    sp_1.3-1        
[45] xml2_1.2.0       openxlsx_4.1.0   tools_3.4.3      forcats_0.3.0   
[49] glue_1.3.0       purrr_0.2.5      hms_0.4.2        abind_1.4-5     
[53] colorspace_1.3-2 bindr_0.1.1      haven_2.0.0     

[brian-may]

This is probably due to the partial shutdown of the US Government.

https://ncdc.noaa.gov/ redirects to https://governmentshutdown.noaa.gov/

[ghaines3]

ugh.

That makes sense, thanks.

[sckott]

correct, NOAA web services are down. and they don't fail well so we have a hard time giving users helpful information.

AFAICT NOAA FTP services are all up though

[sckott]

I made a change in the ncdc() functions, it should error with a useful message now if you reinstall from here.

ncdc_datasets()
#> Error in check_response(ncdc_GET("datasets", args, token, ...)) :
#>   there's a government shutdown; check back later

[sckott]

govt still down, but better error messagse in place