read_importentero: Download Enterococcus data from the Water Quality Portal

In tbep-tech/tbeptools: Data and Indicators for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program

Download Enterococcus data from the Water Quality Portal

Description

Download Enterococcus data from the Water Quality Portal

Usage

read_importentero(stas = NULL, startDate, endDate)

Arguments

stas	character, a vector of stations. If NULL, defaults to all stations in catchprecip.
startDate	character, starting date of observations as YYYY-MM-DD
endDate	character, ending date of observations as YYYY-MM-DD

Details

Retrieves Enterococcus sample data from selected stations and date range from the Water Quality Portal, https://www.waterqualitydata.us

Value

a data frame containing one row for each sample. Columns returned are:

date

date, sample date

yr

numeric, year of sample date

mo

numeric, month of sample date

time

character, sample time

time_zone

character, sample time zone

long_name

character, long name of bay segment subwatershed

bay_segment

character, short name of bay segment subwatershed

station

character, sample station

entero

numeric, Enterococcus concentration

entero_censored

logical, whether entero value was below the laboratory MDL, minimum detection limit

MDL

numeric, minimum detection limit at the time of processing

entero_units

character, units of measurement for entero

qualifier

qualifier codes associated with sample

LabComments

lab comments on sample

Latitude

numeric, latitude in decimal degrees

Longitude

numeric, longitude in decimal degrees

Examples

## Not run: 
# stations to download
stas <- c('21FLHILL_WQX-101',
'21FLHILL_WQX-102',
'21FLHILL_WQX-103')

# download and read the data
entero_in <- read_importentero(stas = stas, startDate = '2023-01-01', endDate = '2023-02-01')

head(entero_in)


## End(Not run)

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