StreamCatTools: Tools to work with the StreamCat API within R and access the full suite of StreamCat catchment and waterhsed scale metrics for all NHDPlusV2 stream reaches and catchments.
StreamCatTools is an R package for accessing StreamCat data via the StreamCat API and for working with site data in conjunction with StreamCat and NHDPlus. StreamCatTools is in development but currently contains a core set of functions for working with the StreamCat API in R.
You can install and load the most recent approved version from GitHub by running:
library(remotes)
install_github("USEPA/StreamCatTools", build_vignettes=TRUE)To view the vignette in RStudio, run
vignette("Introduction", "StreamCatTools")Contributions to development of the package are welcome and encouraged. Please consider the following guidlelines for contributing to StreamCatTools:
- We encourage package users to submit bugs and enhancement requests by submitting issues - see the Quickstart for GitHub Issues page if you are new to GitHub issues
- Contributions should use the standard GitHub fork - pull-request workflow
- We encourage use of the tidyverse style guide for contributions
- Contributions should ideally be tested using testthat
- If you contribute documentation the package uses pkgdown and running
pkgdown::build_site()will refresh the pkgdown pages for the package
PyNHD, part of the HyRiver suite of Python packages, also provides access to StreamCat data via the API in Python, along with other NHDPlus value-added attributes for catchments and catchment and network accumulated values for catchments available via USGS ScienceBase
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