get_ssurgo_study_area: Download and crop the spatial and tabular data for a SSURGO...

In ropensci/FedData: Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

Download and crop the spatial and tabular data for a SSURGO study area.

Description

get_ssurgo_study_area returns a named list of length 2:

1. 'spatial': A Simple Feature of soil mapunits in the template, and

2. 'tabular': A named list of data.frames with the SSURGO tabular data.

Usage

get_ssurgo_study_area(template = NULL, area, date, raw.dir)

Arguments

template	An Simple Feature or SpatRaster object to serve as a template for cropping. If missing, whose study area is returned
area	A character string indicating the SSURGO study area to be downloaded.
date	A character string indicating the date of the most recent update to the SSURGO area for these data. This information may be gleaned from the SSURGO Inventory (get_ssurgo_inventory).
raw.dir	A character string indicating where raw downloaded files should be put. The directory will be created if missing.

Value

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of the SSURGO study areas within the specified template.

ropensci/FedData documentation built on June 9, 2025, 6:53 p.m.