
Provides functions to access historical and real-time national 'hydrometric' data from Water Survey of Canada data sources and then applies tidy data principles.
Maintainer: Sam Albers sam.albers@gmail.com (ORCID) (Copyright holder 2022-2025) [copyright holder]
Other contributors:
Province of British Columbia (Copyright holder 2017-2022) [copyright holder]
Tula Foundation (Copyright holder 2025-present) [copyright holder]
David Hutchinson david.hutchinson@canada.ca [contributor]
Dewey Dunnington dewey@fishandwhistle.net [contributor]
Ryan Whaley rdgwhaley@gmail.com [contributor]
Government of Canada [data contributor]
Luke Winslow (Reviewed for rOpenSci) [reviewer]
Laura DeCicco (Reviewed for rOpenSci) [reviewer]
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. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v059.i10")
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
Useful links: