README.md

In DavidASmith/eaflood: Access to the Environment Agency Real Time Flood Monitoring API for England

eaflood

The eaflood package provides access to data from the Environment Agency FloodMonitoring API covering flood areas in England.

The following data are available:

• Flood warnings
• Flood areas
• Monitoring stations
• Measures (e.g. level and flow recorded at the monitoring stations)
• Readings values for each measure over the previous 4 weeks.

Installation

You can install the development version of eaflood from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("DavidASmith/eaflood")

Examples

Here a few examples of what you can do with eaflood:

library(eaflood)

Get current flood warnings:

plot_flood_warnings(interactive = FALSE)

Get flood areas for a given location…

plot_flood_areas(lat = 53.38,
                 lon = -1.46,
                 dist = 10, 
                 interactive = FALSE)

Get details of available monitoring stations…

plot_stations(town = "Gloucester", interactive = FALSE)

Get recent readings for a particular measure…

plot_measure_readings("L0607-level-stage-i-15_min-m", show_max = FALSE)

See the vignette for more information.

DavidASmith/eaflood documentation built on April 5, 2022, 4:29 a.m.