tidyhydat (version 0.5.4)

tidyhydat-package: tidyhydat: Extract and Tidy Canadian 'Hydrometric' Data

Description

Provides functions to access historical and real-time national 'hydrometric' data from Water Survey of Canada data sources (<https://dd.weather.gc.ca/hydrometric/csv/> and <https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/>) and then applies tidy data principles.

References

To download the latest version of hydat please:

• use the download_hydat() function.

• If that fails you can download directly from this link: https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/

For more information on tidy data please see

• Wickham, Hadley. 2014. Tidy Data. The Journal of Statistical Software. 59. https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v059i10

• tidy data vignette: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidyr/vignettes/tidy-data.html

For more information on HYDAT and ECCC data sources

• Please see this description of the database

• This page is landing page for technical description of HYDAT

• This pdf links to a document that outlines database table definitions

• This FAQ provides a helpful list of ECCC data source questions

See Also

Useful links:

• https://docs.ropensci.org/tidyhydat/

• https://github.com/ropensci/tidyhydat/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/tidyhydat/issues/