assignUses: Assign Utah beneficial use classes to sites

View source: R/assignUses.r

assignUsesR Documentation

Assign Utah beneficial use classes to sites

Description

This function assigns beneficial use classes to water quality portal type site objects (or data with site information attached).

Usage

assignUses(
  data,
  lat = "LatitudeMeasure",
  long = "LongitudeMeasure",
  flatten = FALSE
)

Arguments

data

Input dataset. Must include latitude & longitude columns.

lat

Name of latitude column. Default matches WQP objects.

long

Name of longitude column. Default matches WQP objects.

flatten

Logical. If FALSE (default), maintain use categorys as single comma separated column. If TRUE, use column and data are flattened by expanded use column.

Examples

# Read a couple of sites (Mantua Reservoir and a tributary)
sites=readWQP(type="sites", siteid=c("UTAHDWQ_WQX-4900440","UTAHDWQ_WQX-4900470"))
sites_uses=assignUses(sites)
sites_uses_flat=assignUses(sites, flatten=TRUE)

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