Error downloading 2020 lcd data

[juliannemeehan]

I am trying to download 2020 data using the lcd function:

lcd(72517014737, year = as.integer(2020), verbose = F)

I get the error message:
Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : no lines available in input

I have check the file index:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/local-climatological-data/access/2020/
and there is data for 2020 for this station.

Session Info

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] forcats_0.4.0   stringr_1.4.0   dplyr_0.8.3     purrr_0.3.3    
 [5] readr_1.3.1     tidyr_1.0.0     tibble_2.1.3    ggplot2_3.2.1  
 [9] tidyverse_1.3.0 readxl_1.3.1    rnoaa_0.9.5    

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] tidyselect_0.2.5 haven_2.2.0      lattice_0.20-38  colorspace_1.4-1
 [5] vctrs_0.2.0      generics_0.0.2   XML_3.98-1.20    rlang_0.4.1     
 [9] pillar_1.4.2     withr_2.1.2      httpcode_0.2.0   glue_1.3.1      
[13] DBI_1.0.0        rappdirs_0.3.1   dbplyr_1.4.2     modelr_0.1.5    
[17] lifecycle_0.1.0  munsell_0.5.0    gtable_0.3.0     cellranger_1.1.0
[21] rvest_0.3.5      curl_4.2         hoardr_0.5.2     broom_0.5.2     
[25] Rcpp_1.0.3       backports_1.1.5  scales_1.0.0     jsonlite_1.6    
[29] fs_1.3.1         gridExtra_2.3    hms_0.5.2        digest_0.6.22   
[33] stringi_1.4.3    grid_3.6.1       cli_1.1.0        tools_3.6.1     
[37] magrittr_1.5     lazyeval_0.2.2   crul_0.9.0       crayon_1.3.4    
[41] pkgconfig_2.0.3  zeallot_0.1.0    xml2_1.2.2       reprex_0.3.0    
[45] lubridate_1.7.4  assertthat_0.2.1 httr_1.4.1       rstudioapi_0.10 
[49] R6_2.4.1         nlme_3.1-140     compiler_3.6.1

[sckott]

thanks for the issue. I can replicate the problem. it's due most likely to a cached file on disk matching the query, but that is empty or malformed. looking into it

[sckott]

@juliannemeehan please restart R, reinstall like remotes::install_github("ropensci/rnoaa"), then see the new ?lcd_cache, you can manage your lcd cached files with that object.

lcd_cache$delete_all() # or lcd_cache$delete() to delete specific files
lcd(72517014737, 2020)

should work