downloadWQP: Download water quality, station, and other data from USEPA...
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downloadWQP

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Download water quality, station, and other data from USEPA Water Quality Portal

Description

Download data from EPA's Water Quality Portal (WQP) as .csv files to outfile_path folder.

Usage

downloadWQP(
  outfile_path = getwd(),
  retrieve = c("narrowresult", "activity", "sites", "detquantlim"),
  siteType = c("Aggregate surface-water-use", "Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment", "Spring",
    "Stream"),
  statecode = "US:49",
  zip = FALSE,
  unzip = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

`outfile_path`	Path for file outputs. Defaults to current working directory.
`retrieve`	Vector of data type names to retrieve from WQP. One or more of: "result","narrowresult","activity","sites","detquantlim". Defaults to query narrowresult, activity, sites, and detquantlim.
`zip`	Logical. If FALSE (default) files downloaded as zip folders are not automatically unzipped. If TRUE, the function will unzip all downloaded zip files. Only used if zip==TRUE.
`...`	Other arguments to be passed to readWQP when generating a query URL.
`start_date`	Query start date. "mm/dd/yyyy" format.
`end_date`	Query end date. "mm/dd/yyyy" format.

Value

Exports .csv files for all selected data types during selected date period in specified output path.

Examples

# Read 2018 download narrow result & sites
downloadWQP(outfile_path='C:\\Your\\Folder\\Path', start_date="01/01/2018", end_date="12/31/2018", retrieve=c("narrowresult","sites"))

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