Read Binary Radar Files from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)

The 'DWD' provides gridded radar data for Germany in binary format. 'dwdradar' reads these files and enables a fast conversion into numerical format.

dwdradar

read DWD binary radar files (RADOLAN).

This is an auxiliary package to rdwd.
dwdradar is used in some of the functions underlying readDWD(), see the raster chapter in the documentation.

Installation

Regular:

install.packages("dwdradar")

Latest version:
Note: on Windows, you need to have Rtools installed directly at C:/Rtools
(Compiler paths may not have spaces, as there would be with C:/Program Files/R/Rtools/).

if(!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly=TRUE)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("brry/dwdradar")

History

The main function, readRadarFile, was originally developed inside the rdwd package, see version history there.
Development since Oct 2019 can be tracked in the corresponding dwdradar version history.