getHydro: Retrieve R-friendly hydrology data from DBHYDRO using DB keys

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

Retrieve R-friendly hydrology data from DBHYDRO using DB keys

Description

Downloads and lightly processes DBHYDRO data. This function uses DB keys to download datasets and is therefore more versatile than getDBHYDRO.

Usage

getHydro(dbkey = "03638", startDate = "19600101",
endDate = Sys.Date())

Arguments

dbkey	DBkey for station and parameter of interest. Use 'getDBkey()' to find DBkeys associated with a station.
startDate	beginning of period of record, in form YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD
endDate	end of period of record, in form YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD

Value

dataframe getHydro returns a dataframe of data

Examples

## Not run: 
### example workflow:
getDBkey(stn = "S333", type = "FLOW") # find DBkey for station/parameter of interest
s333.daily <- getHydro(dbkey = "15042") # download data for DBkey
tail(s333.daily)

### check that instantaneous data is also loaded properly
### downloading large datasets may take a very long time
s333.inst <- getHydro(dbkey = "65086", 
   startDate = Sys.Date())
tail(s333.inst)

## End(Not run)

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