Problem when downloading data

[mmorenozam]

Dear Berry,

I would like to first thank you for writing rdwd. I found the package quite interesting. I started it using a couple of days ago, and I have found an issue when downloading data that I hope you might help me.

Let me illustrate this with a little example. By running the following code:

library(rdwd)

link <- selectDWD(c("Potsdam"), res="hourly", var="sun", per="hist")
pdata <- dataDWD(link)

I get this message:

Warning message:
1 Download has failed (out of 1). Setting read=FALSE.
download.file error:
cannot open URL 'ftp://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/hourly/sun/historical/stundenwerte_SD_03987_18930101_20181231_hist.zip' 

If I manually change the last piece of the string "link" from 20181231 to 20191231, it works.

Is this a problem of my installation? (I am using R 4.0.1, with RStudio 1.2.5042 and rdwd 1.3.1 in Windows 7).

I tried updating to rdwd 1.3.13 via the updateRdwd command, but I get this error:

Error : (converted from warning) C:/Users/mmorenozam/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpMNcjbL/R.INSTALL6484896499/rdwd/man/plotRadar.Rd:46: unknown macro '\rcode'
ERROR: installing Rd objects failed for package 'rdwd'

I have installed berryFunctions 1.19.3, and still cannot update.

Waiting for your answer,
Best
Mauricio

[Berry Boessenkool]

Yes, if you update to the latest version, the fileIndex is updated with the historical data ending 2019, not 2018.
The rcode doc error got introduced accidentally three days ago in f8f2569#diff-23cf1e323fef03f5f0ff0396c0a5281bR49
Not sure why my local install succeeded - it should have caught that one.

Thanks for reporting it, will be fixed in a minute.