Obtain metadata for each station in a state.

Source: R/wrcc_createMeta.R

Assembles individual station metadata from a WRCC webservice into a standardized dataframe. Metdata columns include:

  • deviceDeploymentID -- unique identifier

  • deviceID -- device identifier

  • locationID -- location identifier

  • locationName -- English language name

  • longitude -- decimal degrees E

  • latitude -- decimal degrees N

  • elevation -- elevation of station in m

  • countryCode -- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

  • stateCode -- ISO 3166-2 alpha-2

  • timezone -- Olson time zone

  • nwsID -- NWS station identifier

  • wrccID -- WRCC station identifier (in WRCC data)

  • nessID -- NESS station identifier (in WRCC data)

  • agencyName -- responsible agency (in WRCC data)

Because of the large number of web requests required to assemble this metadata, it is recommended that the file be saved and reused by calling wrcc_loadMeta().

wrcc_createMeta(
  stateCode = NULL,
  wrccIDs = NULL,
  baseUrl = "https://raws.dri.edu/",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

stateCode

Two character state code (will be downcased).

wrccIDs

Vector of wrccIDs to be used instead of stateCode.

baseUrl

Base URL for data queries.

verbose

Logical flag controlling detailed progress statements.

Value

Dataframe of station metadata.

See also

wrcc_loadMeta

setRawsDataDir

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

library(RAWSmet)

wa_meta <- wrcc_createMeta(stateCode = 'WA', verbose = TRUE)

dplyr::glimpse(wa_meta, width = 75)

}, silent = FALSE)
}