README.md

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RNWIS

Deprecated

Development of this package has halted. If you are interested in taking over maintainer status for the package, please email the author.

Overview

The R package RNWIS provides access to water-resources data stored on the National Water Information System (NWIS). Importing data requires read-only permissions for you local NWIS server; therefore, the usefulness of this package may be limited to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) employees. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for data selection.

Install

If R is not already installed on your computer, download and install the latest binary distribution from CRAN. Windows users should set R to operate as an single-document interface (SDI) application during installation by choosing to customize the start-up options and specifying the SDI interface (not the default).

You can install the stable version of RNWIS from GitHub, and its dependencies from CRAN, using the following commands:

repos <- c("https://jfisher-usgs.github.io/R", "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
install.packages("RNWIS", repos = repos)

Or use devtools to install the development version.

devtools::install_github("jfisher-usgs/RNWIS")

Guidance for setting up an ODBC connection to NWIS is provided on this website.

Run

R must be run in 32-bit mode to use the ODBC driver. Load RNWIS in the current R session and activate the main GUI

library(RNWIS)

Bugs

Please consider reporting bugs and asking questions on the Issues page.

Disclaimer

This software has been approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although the software has been subjected to rigorous review, the USGS reserves the right to update the software as needed pursuant to further analysis and review. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or the U.S. Government as to the functionality of the software and related material nor shall the fact of release constitute any such warranty. Furthermore, the software is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.

jfisher-usgs/RNWIS documentation built on Aug. 26, 2020, 6:43 p.m.