Data retrieval from South Florida Water Management District online database (DBHYDRO)

DBHYDRO_daily(
  SDATE,
  EDATE,
  DBK,
  dataonly = TRUE,
  period = "uspec",
  v_target_code = "file_csv",
  vert_datum = 1,
  ...
)

Arguments

SDATE: input start date as.Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
EDATE: input end date as.Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
DBK: SFWMD daily data site and data type identifier
dataonly: DEFAULT is TRUE to return a data.frame of data, if set to FALSE it will return a nested list of two data.frame labeled METADATA and REPORT.
period: DEFAULT set to "uspec" for URL query
v_target_code: DEFAULT set to "file_csv" to return a CSV file
vert_datum: DEFAULT set to 1 for NGVD29 vertical datum; 2 = NAVD88 vertical datum
...: to allow for more functionality and flexibility in building URL queries

Value

This function returns daily hydrometerological (discharge, stage(WL) and meterological parameters) dataset from the SFWMD monitoring network (https://apps.sfwmd.gov/WAB/EnvironmentalMonitoring/index.html). This function assumes some familiarity with the District monitoring network and data management.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Daily Discharge Data
sdate=as.Date("2001-05-01");
edate=as.Date("2002-05-01");
dat=DBHYDRO_daily(sdate,edate,"FE771")
}