Get Data for an Argo Float Profile
getProfileFromUrl(
url = NULL,
destdir = argoDefaultDestdir(),
destfile = NULL,
age = argoDefaultProfileAge(),
retries = 3,
quiet = FALSE,
debug = 0
)character value giving the URL for a NetCDF file containing an particular profile of a particular Argo float.
character value indicating the directory in which to store
downloaded files. The default value is to compute this using
argoDefaultDestdir(), which returns ~/data/argo by default,
although it also provides ways to set other values using
options().
Set destdir=NULL
if destfile is a filename with full path information.
File clutter is reduced by creating a top-level directory called
data, with subdirectories for various file types; see
“Examples”.
optional character value that specifies the name to be used
for the downloaded file. If this is not specified, then a name is determined
from the value of url.
a numerical value indicating a time interval, in days. If the file
to be downloaded from the server already exists locally, and was created
is less than age days in the past, it will not be downloaded. The default,
argoDefaultProfileAge(), is one year. Setting age=0 will force a download.
integer telling how many times to retry a download, if the first attempt fails.
logical value; use FALSE to show more
verbose information when downloading files.
(Even if quiet is TRUE, problems will still be reported.)
integer value indicating level of debugging. If this
is less than 1, no debugging is done. Otherwise, some functions
will print debugging information. If a function call fails, the
first step should be to rerun the function with debug=1,
to see if the output suggests a problem in the call.
A character value naming the local location of the downloaded file,
or NA if the file could not be downloaded.