canadian-weather

Canadian Historical Weather Data

Prepared by Nathan K. Chan

To visit the project website, please visit: https://nathankchan.github.io/canadian-weather/

To visit this project on Github, please visit: https://github.com/nathankchan/canadian-weather

To access the online application, please visit: https://nathankchan.shinyapps.io/canadian-weather/

Overview

This project hosts an interactive tool to explore historical Canadian weather data. You can also download and run this project locally.

Visit the app to generate custom visualizations of weather data from the largest city in each Canadian province. Browse the data through surface plots, line charts, and heat maps!

Project Description

This project requires R to be installed. If it is not installed, please visit r-project.org to download the latest version. This project also requires the following R packages to be installed:

To run this project locally, download the repository and set your directory to the project directory. Then, run run.sh from terminal.

Hourly weather data from select Canadian cities will be downloaded to {project_dir}/data. This initial download may take several hours. To update the project with the most up-to-date data, re-run run.sh. Updates may take a several minutes depending on the number of files to update.

cd {project_dir}
source run.sh

To load the interactive Shiny app locally, run app.R from terminal and visit the link (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:{port}). Quit terminal (press CTRL+C) to close the app. For example,

cd {project_dir}
Rscript app.R