fr_hubeau_meta: FR_HUBEAU precomputed station metadata

fr_hubeau_metaR Documentation

FR_HUBEAU precomputed station metadata

Description

Preloaded metadata for Hub'Eau stations, built offline from the Hub'Eau referentials plus scraped site/station fiches (area, site altitude, gauge-zero altitude, vertical datum at site). Used to speed up stations() for the FR_HUBEAU provider.

Format

A data frame/tibble with columns:

code_site

Character. Hub'Eau site code.

station_id

Character. Hub'Eau station code.

area

Numeric (km^2). Catchment area from site fiche; may be NA.

altitude_api

Numeric (m). API referential altitude (hydrometry in mm to m; temperature in m).

altitude_site

Numeric (m). Site altitude parsed from the site fiche; may be NA.

altitude_station

Numeric (m). "Cote du zero d'echelle" from station fiche; may be NA.

vertical_datum_site

Character. Site-level vertical datum label; may be NA.

retrieved_at

POSIXct (UTC). Timestamp when the row was scraped.

Details

Built by data-raw/fr_hubeau_meta_build.R. The file data/fr_hubeau_meta.rda is shipped with the package and may be refreshed out-of-band. A build-date string is also stored in the object attribute metadata_date.

Source

Hub'Eau APIs and https://www.hydro.eaufrance.fr/ site/station fiches.


hydrodownloadR documentation built on Feb. 25, 2026, 5:08 p.m.