hddtools (version 0.3.0)

catalogueData60UK: Interface for the Data60UK database catalogue

Description

This function interfaces the Data60UK database catalogue (available from http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/nrfa/pub/index.html) containing 61 datasets. Dataset catalogue is available from http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/nrfa/pub/data.html.

Usage

catalogueData60UK(bbox = NULL, columnName = NULL, columnValue = NULL)

Arguments

bbox

bounding box, a list made of 4 elements: minimum longitude (lonMin), minimum latitude (latMin), maximum longitude (lonMax), maximum latitude (latMax)

columnName

name of the column to filter

columnValue

value to look for in the column named columnName

Value

This function returns a data frame made of 5 columns: "id" (hydrometric reference number), "name", "location", "Latitude", "Longitude" and "area".

Examples

## Not run: 
#   # Retrieve the whole catalogue
#   catalogueData60UK()
# 
#   # Define a bounding box
#   bbox <- list(lonMin=-3.82,latMin=52.41,lonMax=-3.63,latMax=52.52)
# 
#   # Filter the catalogue
#   catalogueData60UK(bbox)
#   catalogueData60UK(columnName="id",columnValue="62001")
# ## End(Not run)