dataRetrieval
This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data, and metadata directly from web services. (by DOI-USGS)
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| dataRetrieval | gage-conditions-gif | |
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| 4 | 2 | |
| 254 | 15 | |
| 1.2% | - | |
| 8.6 | 5.0 | |
| 9 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| R | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dataRetrieval
Posts with mentions or reviews of dataRetrieval.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-03.
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[OC] U.S. Flow Conditions: August 2022
The tile map was made in R (see code) using ggplot2 and the geofacet packages. Data are from the USGS National Water Information System, accessed in R using dataRetrieval. See it on twitter
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USGS Water Data Conversions Help
I’d look into using the R package data retrieval (https://github.com/USGS-R/dataRetrieval) for downloading data. You could download and write the data to a csv if you want excel to open it.
- Looking for packages full of datasets
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[OC] U.S. river conditions Jan 1st - Mar 31st, 2021 at USGS streamgages, animated
The gage and spatial data were processed in R using dataRetrieval, sf, sp, rgeos, and dplyr. The animation frames were created in R using standard base R graphics, then the frames were stitched together into a video using FFmpeg. Source code can be found on our gage conditions GitHub repository: https://github.com/USGS-VIZLAB/gage-conditions-gif.
gage-conditions-gif
Posts with mentions or reviews of gage-conditions-gif.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-13.
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[OC] U.S. Streamflow levels July 2021 compared to historic record
Nearly 8,000 active streamgages were used to make this chart, using the dataRetrieval package for R to access USGS streamflow data provided by the National Water Information System. Historic and current data were processed in R and the chart was made using the ggplot2, patchwork, and ggfx packages. Final text annotations were done using a vector graphics editor.
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[OC] U.S. river conditions Jan 1st - Mar 31st, 2021 at USGS streamgages, animated
The gage and spatial data were processed in R using dataRetrieval, sf, sp, rgeos, and dplyr. The animation frames were created in R using standard base R graphics, then the frames were stitched together into a video using FFmpeg. Source code can be found on our gage conditions GitHub repository: https://github.com/USGS-VIZLAB/gage-conditions-gif.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dataRetrieval and gage-conditions-gif you can also consider the following projects:
tidytuesday - Official repo for the #tidytuesday project
reddit-top-2.5-million - This is a dataset of the all-time top 1,000 posts, from the top 2,500 subreddits by subscribers, pulled from reddit between August 15–20, 2013.
awesome-public-datasets - A topic-centric list of HQ open datasets.
cheatsheets - Posit Cheat Sheets - Can also be found at https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/.
eurostat - R tools for Eurostat data
rnoaa - R interface to many NOAA data APIs