Accessing NOAA tide data with R

February 18, 2011
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(This article was first published on lukemiller.org » R-project, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Here's some R code that can be used to download archived tide height data from NOAA's CO-OPS OPeNDAP server. The code makes use of RCurl to send a URL query to the server, and then splits apart the resulting data into a data frame.

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