Basic Water Quality Portal Data parser
Imports data from the Water Quality Portal based on a specified url.
importWQP(obs_url, zip = TRUE, tz = "UTC", csv = FALSE)
obs_url |
character URL to Water Quality Portal#' @keywords data import USGS web service |
zip |
logical to request data via downloading zip file. Default set to TRUE. |
tz |
character to set timezone attribute of datetime. Default is UTC (properly accounting for daylight savings times based on the data's provided tz_cd column). Possible values include "America/New_York","America/Chicago", "America/Denver","America/Los_Angeles", "America/Anchorage","America/Honolulu","America/Jamaica","America/Managua","America/Phoenix", and "America/Metlakatla" |
csv |
logical. Is the data coming back with a csv or tsv format. Default is |
retval dataframe raw data returned from the Water Quality Portal. Additionally, a POSIXct dateTime column is supplied for start and end times, and converted to UTC. See https://www.waterqualitydata.us/portal_userguide/ for more information.
# These examples require an internet connection to run
## Examples take longer than 5 seconds:
rawSampleURL <- constructWQPURL('USGS-01594440','01075', '', '')
rawSample <- importWQP(rawSampleURL)
rawSampleURL_NoZip <- constructWQPURL('USGS-01594440','01075', '', '', zip=FALSE)
rawSample2 <- importWQP(rawSampleURL_NoZip, zip=FALSE)
STORETex <- constructWQPURL('WIDNR_WQX-10032762','Specific conductance', '', '')
STORETdata <- importWQP(STORETex)Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.