dataRetrieval (version 1.4.0)

getNWISSample: Import NWIS Sample Data for EGRET analysis

Description

Imports data from NWIS web service. This function gets the data from here: http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/qwdata/ A list of parameter codes can be found here: http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/pmcodes/ A list of statistic codes can be found here: http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/help/?read_file=stat&format=table For raw data, use getQWData. This function will retrieve the raw data, and compress it (summing constituents). See section 3.4 of the vignette for more details.

Usage

getNWISSample(siteNumber, parameterCd, startDate, endDate, interactive = TRUE)

Arguments

siteNumber

string USGS site number. This is usually an 8 digit number

parameterCd

string USGS parameter code. This is usually an 5 digit number.

startDate

string starting date for data retrieval in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

endDate

string ending date for data retrieval in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

interactive

logical Option for interactive mode. If true, there is user interaction for error handling and data checks.

Value

Sample dataframe

See Also

compressData, populateSampleColumns, , getNWISSample

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# These examples require an internet connection to run
Sample_01075 <- getNWISSample('01594440','01075', '1985-01-01', '1985-03-31')
Sample_All2 <- getNWISSample('05114000',c('00915','00931'), '1985-01-01', '1985-03-31')
Sample_Select <- getNWISSample('05114000',c('00915','00931'), '', '')
# }