dataRetrieval (version 1.4.0)

processQWData: Processing of USGS NWIS Water Quality Data

Description

Processes water quality portal data. This function looks at detection limit and detection conditions to determine if a value is left censored or not. Censored values are given the qualifier "<". The dataframe is also converted from a long to wide format.

Usage

processQWData(data, pCode = TRUE)

Arguments

data

dataframe from Water Quality Portal

pCode

logical if TRUE, assume data came from a pCode search, if FALSE, characteristic name.

Value

data dataframe with first column dateTime, and at least one qualifier and value columns (subsequent qualifier/value columns could follow depending on the number of parameter codes)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# These examples require an internet connection to run
# }
# NOT RUN {
rawSample <- getWQPqwData('USGS-01594440','', '', '')
rawSampleSelect <- processQWData(rawSample)
# }