addGoogleElevation: Add Elevation Data to a Dataframe

In PWFSLSmoke: Utilities for Working with Air Quality Monitoring Data

Description

Google APIs are used to determine elevation associated with the locations specified by the lonVar and latVar columns of the incoming dataframe.

Address information is obtained by using the ggmap package.

Usage

addGoogleElevation(
  df,
  lonVar = "longitude",
  latVar = "latitude",
  existingMeta = NULL
)

Arguments

df	dataframe with geolocation information (e.g. those created by wrcc_qualityControl() or airsis_qualityControl)
lonVar	name of longitude variable in the incoming dataframe
latVar	name of the latitude variable in the incoming dataframe
existingMeta	existing 'meta' dataframe from which to obtain metadata for known monitor deployments

Value

Input dataframe with (possibly) additional column: elevation.

References

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/overview

PWFSLSmoke documentation built on Nov. 23, 2021, 5:06 p.m.