dbhydro.stn: An API for station-level DBHYDRO water quality data

In troyhill/SFNRC: APIs and Tools for Processing Data from DataForEver and DBHYDRO

An API for station-level DBHYDRO water quality data

Description

Downloads DBHYDRO water quality data for specified stations

Usage

dbhydro.stn(destfile = "stn_report_todaysDate.csv",
stations = c("ACRA1"),
rename_proj = TRUE,
parameters = "all",
report_type = "full", # full = long dataset - 1 line per sample; crosstab = wide dataset
incl_qc_flags = TRUE,
incl_flagged_data = FALSE,
destination = "file_csv", 
start_date = "01-JAN-1960", # note format
end_date   = "today",
import_data = FALSE)

Arguments

destfile	a character vector file address for output, saved as a comma-delimited text file.
stations	a character vector of station names. If one station in the list returns no data, the entire url request fails.
rename_proj	lorem ipsum
parameters	lorem ipsum
report_type	lorem ipsum
incl_qc_flags	lorem ipsum
incl_flagged_data	lorem ipsum
destination	lorem ipsum
start_date	lorem ipsum
end_date	lorem ipsum
import_data	Logical; should data be returned as R object (and not saved to file)?

Value

dataframe dbhydro.stn saves a csv of DBHYDRO water quality data to disk or returns a dataframe.

See Also

dbhydro.stn.batch is preferred for multiple-station downloads.

Examples

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head(dbhydro.stn())

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