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Vignette: Homogenizing ECCC Data from weathercan

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#116 opened on Apr 20, 2021

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Description

ECCC weather stations are sometimes replaced, meaning that a new station id is created for data coming from the same location. It can be tricky to amalgamate data from these stations.

A vignette that covers examples of how to do so would be useful to many users.

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Research direction
Explore the weathercan package to identify typical station replacement scenarios and demonstrate data merging using dplyr or similar.
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data
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2
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1-3 hours
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Fresh
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Clear
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Rdata manipulation
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80