Pull data using R from a specific weather station

Question

I've looked through many pages of how to do this and they essentially all have the same R code suggestions, which I've followed. Here's the R code I'm using for the specific weather station I'm looking for:

library(rnoaa)
options(noaakey="MyKeyHere")
ncdc(datasetid='GHCND', stationid='GHCND:USW00014739', datatypeid='dly-tmax-normal', startdate='2017-05-15', enddate='2018-01-04')

The error message I get when I run this is: Warning message: Sorry, no data found

I've gone directly to the NOAA site (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search) and manaually pulled the dataset out there (using the "daily summaries" dataset, which is the same as GHCND in the API). There is in fact data there for my entire date range.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

The documentation says:

Note that NOAA NCDC API calls can take a long time depending on the call. The NOAA API doesn't perform well with very long timespans, and will time out and make you angry - beware.

Have you tried a smaller timespan?