tidyhydat: Extract and Tidy Canadian 'Hydrometric' Data
Source:R/tidyhydat-package.R
tidyhydat-package.Rd
Provides functions to access historical and real-time national 'hydrometric' data from Water Survey of Canada data sources (https://dd.weather.gc.ca/hydrometric/csv/ and https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/) and then applies tidy data principles.
References
To download the latest version of hydat please:
use the
download_hydat()
function.If that fails you can download directly from this link: https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/
For more information on tidy data please see
Wickham, Hadley. 2014. Tidy Data. The Journal of Statistical Software. 59. doi:10.18637/jss.v059.i10
tidy data vignette: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidyr/vignettes/tidy-data.html
For more information on HYDAT and ECCC data sources
Please see this description of the database
This page is landing page for technical description of HYDAT
This pdf links to a document that outlines database table definitions
This FAQ provides a helpful list of ECCC data source questions
Author
Maintainer: Sam Albers sam.albers@gmail.com (ORCID)
Other contributors:
David Hutchinson david.hutchinson@canada.ca [contributor]
Dewey Dunnington dewey@fishandwhistle.net [contributor]
Ryan Whaley rdgwhaley@gmail.com [contributor]
Province of British Columbia [copyright holder]
Government of Canada [data contributor]
Luke Winslow (Reviewed for rOpenSci) [reviewer]
Laura DeCicco (Reviewed for rOpenSci) [reviewer]