When a colleague told me he assigned an undergrad student full-time to copy-paste historical weather data from Environment Canada, I searched into my files and found some code which I could format and share. The weathercan package, a gem written by Steffi LaZerte, allowed me to automate fetching tasks and save countless hours. All I had to provide was the spatial coordinates of my sites and, since my work was about agricultural data, time periods expressed as beginning of the season to harvest.