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Retrieve Protected Area Information

Source: R/get_pa.r
get_pa.Rd

Retrieves details of Protected Areas associated with waterbodies, catchments or River Basin Districts from the EA Catchment Data Explorer site. Data can be retrieved by specifying waterbody id (WBID), Management Catchment (MC), Operational Catchment (OC) or River Basin District (RBD).

Usage

get_pa(ea_name = NULL, column = NULL)

Arguments

ea_name

A string representing the description (name for OC, MC or RBD level downloads or WBID for individual waterbodies) of the features to be extracted. For example to extract data for the whole of the Humber RBD, this would be "Humber"; also see examples. Must be an exact match to the values used in the EA database. Use the search_names function to search for specific values.

column

The column to be searched. Possible options are WBID (waterbody id), OC (Operational Catchment), MC (Management Catchment) and RBD (River Basin District)

Value

An object of class cde_df containing the details of the Protected Areas associated with the waterbodies. For details of the meaning of the the different columns returned, see https://docs.ropensci.org/cde/articles/cde-output-reference.html.

Examples

# get protected areas associated with waterbody GB112071065700
get_pa(ea_name="GB112071065700", column="WBID")
#>  river_basin_district management_catchment operational_catchment
#>            North West               Ribble            Big Ribble
#>            North West               Ribble            Big Ribble
#> With an additional 5 columns of data. 
#> Row values may be truncated to fit console. 

# get the protected areas associated with the Humber RBD
get_pa(ea_name="Humber", column="RBD")
#>  river_basin_district management_catchment operational_catchment
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#>                Humber            Humber GW Aire and Calder Carb 
#> With an additional 2278 rows and 5 columns of data. 
#> Row values may be truncated to fit console. 

# get the protected areas associated with the Avon Warwickshire
# Management Catchment
get_pa(ea_name="Avon Warwickshire", column="MC")
#>  river_basin_district management_catchment operational_catchment
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#>                Severn    Avon Warwickshire  Avon - Midlands West
#> With an additional 114 rows and 5 columns of data. 
#> Row values may be truncated to fit console.