Missing data for precipitation

[femiguez]

Description

Currently, NASA POWER is not returning precipitation. It is returned as -999.0, which is not captured by the na argument in readr:read_csv. I have expanded the argument to hopefully capture a few more of these.

Related Issue

Example

I just ran the example in ?get_power with this change and it returns 'NA' instead of '-999'

[adamhsparks]

Hi Fernando,
Earlier in the day before you submitted this, I'd committed this change to the devel branch:
62db544

I suppose your fix is probably the better option though. I'll revert my commit and apply your PR to that branch.

[Ebedthan]

Hi @adamhsparks,
The fixed version is not yet deployed on CRAN, I would not have understood what was going on if have not found this PR.
Please can the fixed version be submitted to CRAN?
And can you please kindly give me some details on why NASA power is not returning precipitation at the time?
Thanks

[adamhsparks]

The plan is to submit a new version to CRAN with bug fixes and other enhancements as I’ve done in the past. Since this is not a major bug, and is easily fixed by the end user, either replacing the values with a proper NA or installing from GitHub, it’s not a high priority at the moment. I will do that once I’m satisfied that there are no other bugs that need to be fixed and when I have the time to do it.

This is just a client for the POWER API, you need to direct questions about the data themselves to the POWER team, not to me please.

[femiguez]

@Ebedthan If you need precipitation you data you can try the chirps package (Adam is one of the developers).

We actually do not use precipitation data from NASA POWER even when it does not return NA (-999). :)

[Ebedthan]

Ooh thanks so much, @femiguez, I'll try it out!