Searches the listing of EA monitoring sites to find rows
that contain the string provided. Can search by WBID (WBID), name
(name), Management Catchment (MC), Operational Catchment
(OC) or River Basin District (RBD). There is a hierarchical
relationship between these levels as shown at https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/help#help-catchment-hierarchy.
The search is done on a local copy of the waterbody listing contained in
the ea_wbids object rather than connecting to the
EA site.
Value
A data frame containing the details of all the sites that match
the search string (full or partial matches) in the column specified.
Columns returned are defined in ea_wbids.
Examples
# search for sites containing "Tadnoll" in the name
search_names(string="Tadnoll", column="name")
#> WBID name type
#> 3694 GB108044009660 Tadnoll Brook (including Empool Bottom) River
#> OC MC RBD
#> 3694 Poole Harbour Rivers Dorset South West
# search for Operational Catchments containing "Cornwall"
search_names(string="Cornwall", column="OC")
#> WBID name type OC
#> 3544 GB610807680002 Cornwall North Coastal Cornwall North Coastal
#> 3567 GB620806570000 Cornwall South Coastal Cornwall South Coastal
#> 3763 GB40802G800300 North Cornwall Groundwater North Cornwall
#> 3769 GB40802G800200 South Cornwall Groundwater South Cornwall
#> 3772 GB40802G800100 West Cornwall Groundwater West Cornwall
#> MC RBD
#> 3544 South West TraC South West
#> 3567 South West TraC South West
#> 3763 South West GW South West
#> 3769 South West GW South West
#> 3772 South West GW South West