Description
Allows to download current and historical METAR weather reports extract and parse basic parameters and present main weather information. Current reports are downloaded from Aviation Weather Center <https://aviationweather.gov/data/metar/> and historical reports from Iowa Environmental Mesonet web page of Iowa State University ASOS-AWOS-METAR <http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/AWOS/>.
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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 4, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 3, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
examples
Running examples in ‘pmetar-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:
> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: metar_get
> ### Title: Get a current METAR report for an airport.
> ### Aliases: metar_get
>
> ### **
...[truncated]...
from the file downloaded from
http://ourairports.com/data/airports.csv
created by David Megginson
Getting information from Aviation Weather Center aviationweather.gov/data/metar/
Error: httr2_failure: Error during request performing!
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 2, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 31, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-windows-x86_64
examples
Running examples in 'pmetar-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:
> ### Name: metar_get
> ### Title: Get a current METAR report for an airport.
> ### Aliases: metar_get
>
> ### ** Examples
>
> metar_get("EPWA")
Getting airport informaito
...[truncated]...
from the file downloaded from
http://ourairports.com/data/airports.csv
created by David Megginson
Getting information from Aviation Weather Center aviationweather.gov/data/metar/
Error: httr2_failure: Error during request performing!
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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