rnrfa: UK National River Flow Archive Data from R (original) (raw)

Utility functions to retrieve data from the UK National River Flow Archive (<https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/>, terms and conditions: <https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/costs-terms-and-conditions>). The package contains R wrappers to the UK NRFA data temporary-API. There are functions to retrieve stations falling in a bounding box, to generate a map and extracting time series and general information. The package is fully described in Vitolo et al (2016) "rnrfa: An R package to Retrieve, Filter and Visualize Data from the UK National River Flow Archive" <https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016/RJ-2016-036/RJ-2016-036.pdf>.

Version:

2.1.0.6

Depends:

R (≥ 3.5)

Imports:

curl, ggmap (≥ 4.0.0), ggplot2, graphics, httr, jsonlite, lubridate, parallel, sf, stats, tibble, utils, zoo

Suggests:

DT, dygraphs, knitr, leaflet, rmarkdown, testthat

Published:

2024-06-19

DOI:

10.32614/CRAN.package.rnrfa

Author:

Ilaria Prosdocimi [ctb, cre], Claudia Vitolo [aut] (Claudia is the original creator of the package), Matthew Fry [ctb] (Matthew supervised the unofficial API integration.), Wouter Buytaert [ctb] (This package is part of Claudia Vitolo's PhD work and Wouter is the supervisor.), Michael Spencer [ctb] (Michael updated the function osg_parse to work with grid references of different lengths.), Tobias Gauster [ctb] (Tobias improved the function osg_parse introducing vectorisation)