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R Packages for Hydrology

The R ecosystem excels at the statistical side of hydrology: frequency analysis, trend detection, regionalisation and visualisation. Indexed here are the CRAN packages hydrologists actually use, from extreme-value fitting to national data-archive clients.

EGRET

Open Source

USGS R package for long-term water-quality and streamflow trends — home of the WRTDS method.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalActiveWater Quality ModellingR Hydrology

SPEI (R package)

Open Source

The reference R implementation of SPEI and SPI from the index's own authors.

Climate & Change AnalysisStableDrought AnalysisR Hydrology

airGR

Open Source

INRAE's GR rainfall-runoff models (GR4J family) plus CemaNeige snow, packaged for R.

Hydrology & Catchment AnalysisActiveR HydrologySnow Hydrology

dataRetrieval

Open Source

The USGS R package for pulling NWIS and Water Quality Portal data — gauge records as tidy data frames.

Data, Monitoring & ForecastingActiveStreamflow DataR Hydrology

downscaleR

Open Source

Statistical downscaling and bias correction of climate projections in R — part of the climate4R framework.

Climate & Change AnalysisStableClimate ProjectionsR Hydrology

fasstr

Open Source

Canadian government R package for streamflow analysis — trends, frequencies and summaries from HYDAT.

Data, Monitoring & ForecastingActiveStreamflow DataR Hydrology

hydroTSM

Open Source

R workhorse for hydrological time series — aggregation, summaries and hydrologically-aware plots in a few calls.

Data, Monitoring & ForecastingStableR HydrologyStreamflow Data

rnrfa

Open Source

R client for the UK National River Flow Archive — catalogue, gauged daily flows and catchment metadata.

Data, Monitoring & ForecastingStableStreamflow DataR Hydrology

swmmr

Open Source

Run and read EPA SWMM from R — model execution, results import and GIS conversion on CRAN.

Urban Stormwater & InfrastructureDormantSWMMR Hydrology