A tool that forecasts and visualizes the heating and cooling load across the continental United States.
- gdal -- Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. Backs the
rgdal
R package, which is used to load and plot weather forecast data. - R -- The R Project for Statistical Programming. Used to load weather forecast data,
calculate heating and cooling degree days, and plot results. Additional R package dependencies are required for this
project to run. These may be found in the
DESCRIPTION
file under the R package root. - ffmpeg -- used to generate the MPEG animated forecast
- ImageMagick -- used to generate the HIF and MPEG animated forecasts
- rbundler -- used in the binary script, though not strictly required for any ad-hoc work
These dependencies should be available for any *NIX machine.
I used homebrew to install them on OS X.
Installs all R package dependencies and runs end-to-end forecasts:
./bin/generate_load_forecasts.Rscript