Load WRCC RAWS station metadata from a local directory

Source: R/wrcc_loadMeta.R

Loads WRCC station metadata for a given state from the rawsDataDir. If the data is not in this directory, this will download and save the data.

wrcc_loadMeta(
  stateCode = NULL,
  newDownload = FALSE,
  baseUrl = "https://raws.dri.edu/",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

stateCode

Two character state code (will be downcased).

newDownload

Logical flag stating whether or not to download and override existing data.

baseUrl

Base URL for data queries.

verbose

Logical flag controlling detailed progress statements.

Value

Dataframe containing station metadata.

See also

wrcc_createMeta

setRawsDataDir

Examples

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

# For creation of metadata
library(MazamaSpatialUtils)
setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial")
loadSpatialData("NaturalEarthAdm1.rda")

library(RAWSmet)
setRawsDataDir("~/Data/RAWS")

wa_meta <- wrcc_loadMeta(stateCode = "WA")

dplyr::glimpse(wa_meta, width = 80)

}, silent = FALSE)
}