Adding large (climatic) datasets to the R-Instat library?

[rdstern]

@lilyclements and @dannyparsons

I would like to add and also collect more large (climatic) data sets that become easily available within the R-Instat library.

Some will be messy, I want to use them in our documentation to show how they can be tidied.

a) One example is our Eastern Province data that we are using a lot in the help and climatic guides. Ideally we would have 3 copies: One is the initial file as provided and maybe in 2 different ways (that makes 4 overall). Then a defined as climatic set, starting in January, also a climatic set defined from July.
b) I used the rescued data from Burkina Faso from 1940-80 in the recent visit there. It is daily data for 20 years, for 41 elements, plus some explanatory files. There's also 30hour data for 21 elements for 40 years. And I hav e similar data for 13 other countries.

Could we have them as an extra that users could add themselves? For example could they be in a github package, like our other packages? That would be perfect if, once installed they just merged with the other installed datasets in our library. Maybe they could include the existing R-Instat library, so they just take over?

Would this be possible, maybe even easy?

[lilyclements]

While we're on this, I need to save and reupload some data sets back into R-Instat since using them in R can create issues (this is since moving R code away from R-Instat and into R. It's no big deal which is why I've not done it yet!).

I wonder about setting up a packages for all of our data sets, so that it is consistent with other R packages and we have that separation between R and R-Instat. Does that sound sensible?