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)
| gage-conditions-gif | dataRetrieval | |
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| 2 | 4 | |
| 15 | 254 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 5.0 | 8.6 | |
| 12 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| R | R | |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gage-conditions-gif and dataRetrieval 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