Scott Chamberlain

another eg ``` r download.file("https://github.com/sckott/scott/raw/gh-pages/pdfs/ChamberlainEtal2010Oecologia_journalcopy.pdf", "paper.pdf") pdftools::pdf_text('paper.pdf') #> error: Invalid shared object hint table offset #> error: Failed to get object num from hint tables for page 1 #> error:...

Yes, same errors, ``` Syntax Warning: Invalid shared object hint table offset Syntax Warning: Failed to get object num from hint tables for page 1 Syntax Warning: Failed parsing page...

All of these give errors of various kinds https://github.com/sckott/pdftoolspdfs - let me know if you want me to paste in the errors

Sorry, yes, the text does come back fine

@cboettig do you have any of this data in a human consumable format? the data is in binary files that are as typical for noaa hard to wrap your head...

right, have seen some code that reads using raster, but there's a fair amount of manipulation before that can happen, will keep looking

notes - ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/global_CMORPH/README.cmorph.8km_30minute - ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/global_CMORPH/README.cmorph-only.8km-hourly this is sort of a hot mess, putting off for later

moving to next milestone - if anyone wants to get this working, that'd be great - file is at `inst/ignore/cmorph.R`

thanks very much @mdsumner and @raymondben - i'll try that out. @rmendels not sure, @cboettig is the one that brought this up, so i don't know myself what folks want...

@neda1366 Thanks for your comment > What about this ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/CMORPH_V1.0/CRT/8km-30min/1998/ Please clarify what you are asking. What about it?