[Rnomads-user] rNOMADS Patch

[Philip]

Were you able to load the rNOMADS fix from about two weeks ago?  I have not been able to get it to work?  Below is the code I used and the error message.

install.packages("C:/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz",type="source")

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Owner/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘C:/Ballooning/WeatherBriefing/rNOMADS_2.5.0.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 4.0.2)
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I get the same error message when I back off to R version 3.6.3.  I have even tried to unzip the folder and load it that way without success.

I have two questions.  First, are you using Windows or Linux?

Second, can you send the the code that worked for you?  I keep wondering if I doing something wrong.  Several colleagues, not rNOMADS users, have made suggestions like adding type=”source” but I keep hitting a brick wall.

If you are interested, I‘m trying to correlate low level winds from the Rapid Refresh Forecasts to longitude, latitude, and speed data from a phone ap that tracks hot air balloon flights.  Attached is a flight my wife made in Mesquite Nevada.  By changing altitude, color coded, she tracked back and forth across I-15 six times in an hour.  We joke that the FAA serial number on my father-in-law’s balloon was N-1132R.  And the R stands for ridicules.  We don’t go anywhere...we really don’t accomplish anything.  But it’s kind of a Zen thing.  Controlling the balloon by finding the right wind is such a hoot.

Thanks,
Philip Heinrich
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