Description

Provides functions to access historical and real-time national 'hydrometric' data from Water Survey of Canada data sources (<https://dd.weather.gc.ca/hydrometric/csv/> and <https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/>) and then applies tidy data principles.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Sam Albers sam.albers@gov.bc.ca (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• David Hutchinson david.hutchinson@canada.ca [contributor]

• Dewey Dunnington dewey@fishandwhistle.net [contributor]

• Ryan Whaley rdgwhaley@gmail.com [contributor]

• Province of British Columbia [copyright holder]

• Luke Winslow (Reviewed for rOpenSci) [reviewer]

• Laura DeCicco (Reviewed for rOpenSci) [reviewer]

References

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. https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v059i10

• 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: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/quantity/monitoring/survey/data-products-services/national-archive-hydat.html

• This page is landing page for technical description of HYDAT: https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/

• This page links to a document that outlines database table definitions: https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/HYDAT_Definition_EN.pdf

• This FAQ provides a helpful list of ECCC data source questions: https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/contactus/faq_e.html

See Also

Useful links:

• https://docs.ropensci.org/tidyhydat/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/tidyhydat/issues