Fetch SCAN Data
Query soil/climate data from USDA-NRCS SCAN Stations (experimental)
fetchSCAN(site.code, year, report = "SCAN", req = NULL)
site.code |
a vector of site codes |
year |
a vector of years |
report |
report name, single value only |
req |
list of SCAN request parameters, for backwards-compatibility only |
See the fetchSCAN tutorial for details. These functions require the httr and rvest libraries.
a data.frame object
SCAN_sensor_metadata() is known to crash on 32bit R / libraries (Windows).
D.E. Beaudette
https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/index.html
if(requireNamespace("curl") &
curl::has_internet()) {
# get data: new interface
x <- fetchSCAN(site.code=c(356, 2072), year=c(2015, 2016))
str(x)
# get sensor metadata
m <- SCAN_sensor_metadata(site.code=c(356, 2072))
# get site metadata
m <- SCAN_site_metadata(site.code=c(356, 2072))
}Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.