A packages for retreiving data from the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) API from R.

You will need an API key to use this package. You can apply for one for free. Please follow the directions at: https://et.water.ca.gov/Home/Register/

*Make certain you follow through to activate your CIMIS key (upper-right corner of the CIMIS page).

The way to install is using the devtools package:

library(devtools)
install_github("mespe/Rcimis")

The package currently looks in the users R options for the API key, which allows the user to store the key without having to re-enter it with each call or possibilty expose the key in an R script.

The function CIMISweather accesses the CIMIS API, and follows the REST protocols outlined at https://et.water.ca.gov/Rest/Index

CIMISweather(startDate = "2015-01-01", endDate = "2015-02-01", targets
= c(6,32))

Additionally, a convience function to calculate the geographic distance from a user specified lat/long to the nearest stations can be returned with getDist.

getDists(38.5, -121.5)
    StationNbr  Name  City              RegionalOffice County ConnectDate
121        121 Dixon Dixon North Central Region Office Solano  1994-09-20
    DisconnectDate IsActive IsEtoStation Elevation GroundCover HmsLatitude
121     2030-12-31     True         True        37       Grass   38º24'56N
    HmsLongitude ZipCodes SitingDesc DdLatitude DdLongitude Elevation_m
121  -121º47'13W    95620              38.41556   -121.7869     11.2776
      distKm
121 26.71803