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+###########################
+#### Call Dark Sky API ####
+###########################
+
+# ----
+## Hypothesis: adverse weather conditions play a significant role in frequency and severity of traffic accidents.
+## To test: augment our existing crash data with weather data from DarkSky API
+## How: API call for the time (date, time of day) and place (latitude & longitude) of each traffic accident in our data
+
+# install libraries ----
+install.packages("httr")
+#Require the package so you can use it
+require("httr")
+library(httr)
+
+install.packages("jsonlite")
+#Require the package so you can use it
+require("jsonlite")
+library(jsonlite)
+
+# create function: API to dataframe ----
+apiData <- function(call){
+  as.data.frame(
+    fromJSON(
+      content(
+        GET(call), "text")
+      )
+    )
+}
+
+# create function: API call writer ----
+apiCallWriter <- function(lat, lon, time, key = "1234567890abcdefg" ## change this fake key to your own, given from DarkSky.net
+                          ){
+  call = paste0("https://api.darksky.net/forecast/",
+                key, "/",
+                lat, ",",
+                lon, ",",
+                time, "?",
+                "exclude=currently,flags")
+  return(call)
+}
+
+# create function: unix time ----
+unixTime <- function(date, time, tz = "America/Chicago", format = "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"){
+  time = format(strptime(time, "%I:%M %p"), format="%H:%M:%S") ## convert to 24hr format
+  humanReadableTime = paste(date, time) # space in between
+  epochTime = as.numeric(as.POSIXct(humanReadableTime, format = format, tz = tz))
+  return(epochTime)
+}
+
+# ----
+# crash <- readRDS("data-idot/COMBINED CRASH DATA.Rds") %>%
+#   select(lat, lon, CrashHour, CrashMonth)
+darkskyinput = crash %>%
+  select(ICN, CrashID, lat, lon, TimeOfCrash, CrashDate) %>%
+  mutate(CrashUnixTime = unixTime(CrashDate, TimeOfCrash))
+
+masterWeather = setNames(data.table(matrix(nrow = 0,
+                                           ncol = 24)),
+                         c(## City of Chicago crash data columns
+                           "ICN",
+                           "CrashID",
+                           "CrashDate",
+                           "TimeOfCrash",
+                           
+                           ## Feature Engineering for DarkSky columns
+                           "CrashUnixTime",
+                           "MinutesFromInput",
+                           
+                           ## relevant DarkSky weather data columns
+                           "hourly.summary",
+                           "hourly.icon",
+                           "hourly.data.time",
+                           "hourly.data.summary",
+                           "hourly.data.icon",
+                           "hourly.data.precipIntensity",
+                           "hourly.data.precipProbability",
+                           "hourly.data.temperature",
+                           "hourly.data.apparentTemperature",
+                           "hourly.data.dewPoint",
+                           "hourly.data.humidity",
+                           "hourly.data.pressure",
+                           "hourly.data.windSpeed",
+                           "hourly.data.windGust",
+                           "hourly.data.windBearing",
+                           "hourly.data.cloudCover",
+                           "hourly.data.uvIndex",
+                           "hourly.data.visibility"))
+
+for(i in c(1:nrow(darkskyinput))){ ## you only get 1,000 free calls per day, run on a small subset to test/develop
+  call = apiCallWriter(darkskyinput$lat[i], darkskyinput$lon[i], darkskyinput$CrashUnixTime[i])
+  print(call)
+  sub = apiData(call) %>%
+    mutate(TimeFromInput = abs(hourly.data.time - darkskyinput$CrashUnixTime[i]),
+           CrashUnixTime = darkskyinput$CrashUnixTime[i],
+           TimeOfCrash = darkskyinput$TimeOfCrash[i],
+           CrashDate = darkskyinput$CrashDate[i],
+           ICN = darkskyinput$ICN[i],
+           CrashID = darkskyinput$CrashID[i]) %>%
+    ## whatever the day of the epoch time within the location's time zone,
+    ## DarkSky API call returns hourly weather data for the entire day.
+    ## here, choose only the weather data for hour nearest the crash
+    filter(TimeFromInput == min(TimeFromInput)) %>%
+    mutate(TimeFromInput = TimeFromInput / 60) %>%
+    rename(MinutesFromInput = TimeFromInput) %>%
+    select("ICN",
+           "CrashID",
+           "CrashDate",
+           "TimeOfCrash",
+           "CrashUnixTime",
+           "MinutesFromInput",
+           "hourly.summary",
+           "hourly.icon",
+           "hourly.data.time",
+           "hourly.data.summary",
+           "hourly.data.icon",
+           "hourly.data.precipIntensity",
+           "hourly.data.precipProbability",
+           "hourly.data.temperature",
+           "hourly.data.apparentTemperature",
+           "hourly.data.dewPoint",
+           "hourly.data.humidity",
+           "hourly.data.pressure",
+           "hourly.data.windSpeed",
+           "hourly.data.windGust",
+           "hourly.data.windBearing",
+           "hourly.data.cloudCover",
+           "hourly.data.uvIndex",
+           "hourly.data.visibility")
+  
+  masterWeather = rbind(masterWeather, sub)
+  }
+View(masterWeather)
+