3) Create lab02-NOAA . R that reads /u1/junk/cs617/NOAA gsod/1929/030050-99999-1

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3) Create lab02-NOAA . R that reads /u1/junk/cs617/NOAA gsod/1929/030050-99999-1929.op into a data frame using read.fwf. Note that /u1/junk/cs617/NOAA gsod/*.txt describes the data. 3a) Have your program produce a file lab02_NOAA.csv that includes columns: Date, Max Temp, Min Temp, Precip The date should be displayed as "2017-12-31", and Precip should be empty if there was no precipitation that day and "y" if there was precipitation that day. The Precip data is taken from the last column 3b) Have your program also print the number of days, first date, last date, average Min Temp, average Max temp, and percentage of days that had precipitation

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NOAA NCDC climate data: We are using the NOAA API version 2 Docs for the NCDC API GHCN Daily data FTP and HTTP Severe weather data Sea ice data NOAA buoy data ERDDAP data Now in package rerddap Tornadoes! Data from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center HOMR - Historical Observing Metadata Repository - from NOAA NCDC Storm data - from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) GHCND FTP data - NOAA NCDC API has some/all (not sure really) of this data, but FTP allows to get more data more quickly

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