EGRET
Open Source
USGS R package for long-term water-quality and streamflow trends — home of the WRTDS method.
dataRetrieval
ActiveThe USGS R package for pulling NWIS and Water Quality Portal data — gauge records as tidy data frames.
by US Geological Survey
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- CC0 (US Government)
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- R
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
install.packages("dataRetrieval")About dataRetrieval
dataRetrieval is how R users get US hydrological data properly: discharge, stage, groundwater levels and water-quality samples from USGS services and the multi-agency Water Quality Portal, returned as documented, tidy data frames with metadata attached. It is maintained by the USGS itself and tracks the agency's evolving web services so your scripts don't have to.
Every reproducible US hydrology workflow in R starts here — frequency analysis, trend studies (it feeds EGRET directly), model calibration. If you have ever hand-downloaded a gauge record from a portal, this package refunds those hours.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
Appears in collections
- Hydrology Data Access, Scripted
Packages and portals that put gauge records and design rainfall one function call away.
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