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hydroscoper is an R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Hydroscope. For more details checkout the package’s website and the vignettes:

Installation

Install the stable release from CRAN with:

install.packages("hydroscoper")

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/hydroscoper")

Using hydroscoper

The functions that are provided by hydroscoper are:

  • get_stations, get_timeseries, ..., etc. family functions, to retrieve tibbles with Hydroscope’s data for a given data source.
  • get_data, to retrieve a tibble with time series’ values.
  • hydro_coords, to convert Hydroscope’s points’ raw format to a tibble.
  • hydro_translate to translate various terms and names from Greek to English.

The data sets that are provided by hydroscoper are:

  • stations a tibble with stations’ data from Hydroscope.
  • timeseries a tibble with time series’ data from Hydroscope.
  • greece_borders a tibble with the borders of Greece.

Example

This is a minimal example which shows how to get the station’s 200200 precipitation time series 56 from the kyy sub-domain.

Load libraries and get data:

library(hydroscoper)
library(tibble)
library(ggplot2)

ts_raw <- get_data(subdomain = "kyy", time_id = 56)
ts_raw

Let’s create a plot:

ggplot(data = ts_raw, aes(x = date, y = value))+
  geom_line()+
  labs(title= "30 min precipitation for station 200200",
       x="Date", y = "Rain height (mm)")+
  theme_classic()

Meta

  • Bug reports, suggestions, and code are welcome. Please see Contributing.
  • License:
    • All code is licensed MIT.
    • All data are from the public data sources in http://www.hydroscope.gr/.
  • To cite hydroscoper please use:
Vantas Konstantinos, (2018). hydroscoper: R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for
Hydrological and Meteorological Information. Journal of Open Source Software,
3(23), 625 DOI:10.21105/joss.00625

or the BibTeX entry:

@Article{kvantas2018,
author = {Konstantinos Vantas},
title = {{hydroscoper}: R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00625},
year = {2018},
month = {mar},
publisher = {The Open Journal},
volume = {2},
number = {23},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}
}