soilDB (version 1.8-7)

fetchSCAN: Fetch SCAN Data

Description

Query soil/climate data from USDA-NRCS SCAN Stations (experimental)

Usage

# get SCAN data
fetchSCAN(site.code, year, report='SCAN', req=NULL)
# get SCAN station metadata
SCAN_sensor_metadata(site.code)

Arguments

site.code

a vector of site codes

year

a vector of years

report

report name, single value only

req

list of SCAN request parameters, for backwards-compatibility only

Value

a data.frame object

Details

See The fetchSCAN tutorial for details. These functions require the `httr` and `rvest` libraries.

References

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/scan/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# get data: new interface
x <- fetchSCAN(site.code=c(356, 2072), year=c(2015, 2016))
str(x)

# get sensor metadata
m <- SCAN_sensor_metadata(site.code=c(356, 2072))
# }