US Federal Government Shutdown & Data

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Here’s a list of known data sources that are no longer available during the shutdown:

NOAA

all the below redirect to https://government-shutdown.noaa.gov and thus cause errors in the function calls

  • rnoaa::ncdc() - National Climatic Data Center API
  • rnoaa::ersst() - NOAA Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature (ERSST) data
  • rnoaa::lcd() - Local Climitalogical Data
  • rnoaa::homr() - Historical Observing Metadata Repository (HOMR) station metadata
  • rnoaa::swdi() - severe weather data inventory

Other data sources in rnoaa are still working as they work with FTP servers that are still up

USGS

ITIS

The ITIS service is completely down, affecting

  • the entire ritis R package
  • the ITIS functionality inside the taxize package

Checkout taxizedb for working with database dumps - of course you’ll have already had to download ITIS database dump :frowning:

BISON

USGS’s BISON service is down

Affects the rbison package

Entrez

appears to be unaffected (I guess b/c NIH deemed important enough to keep opn), anyone having problems?

NASA

any NASA data down?

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Don’t know if your saw this but all of https://data.gov is down.

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Thanks @jsta

data.gov has a CKAN interface, which one can use via ckanr - but not right now :frowning:

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Yeah, it appears that https://power.larc.nasa.gov/ is down. It’s a shame, I have a few moments this afternoon to work on the nasapower package.

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thanks @adamhsparks - we may be up tmrw though :slight_smile: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/us/politics/congress-votes-to-end-government-shutdown.html

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Everything should be back up on rnoaa, rbison, and ritis

looks like data.gov is back up: try Rscript -e 'ckanr::ckan_info("http://catalog.data.gov/")'

@adamhsparks is your data source back up?

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Yes, it’s back, but I’ve meetings all day today. hah!

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great, glad it’s up at least

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+10 points to you for exposing me to ckanr, what a fantastic tool.

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glad you like it. it’s bady in need of attention, so many other things to do :cry: