[R] USGS stream flow data automatic download R

[Felipe Carrillo]

An Excel Web query will also do what you want. From an Excel Workbook create a web query and link it to the USGS website. You can schedule downloads or the query will download data up-to-date everytime the workbook is open.


Felipe D. Carrillo  
Supervisory Fishery Biologist  
Department of the Interior  
US Fish & Wildlife Service  
California, USA


--- On Wed, 7/29/09, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] USGS stream flow data automatic download R
> To: Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 6:23 PM
> Instantaneous Data, mean flow data
> could be a start.  That would be
> wonderful if you would send it to me.
> 
> Stephen Sefick
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:20 PM, <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > Stephen,
> >
> > I don't have anything or know of anything in R to do
> this. But, we download USGS streamflow data routinely. I
> have a Perl script that will reformat the downloaded data
> into a R-importable format (basically two columns date/time
> flow value). Are you interested in mean daily or
> instantaneous streamflow data?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tom
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:03 pm
> > Subject: [R] USGS stream flow data automatic download
> R
> >
> >> I don't even know if this is the right place to
> ask this question.  I
> >> would like to download USGS stream gauging data
> for a couple of gauges
> >> on a daily basis- save the files to .csv files and
> append the nest
> >> days time series to this.  Is there a way to do
> this automatically in
> >> R?
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stephen Sefick
> >>
> >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking
> about things that are
> >> so little or so large that all they really do for
> us is puff us up and
> >> make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have
> not exhausted the
> >> annoying little problems of being mammals.
> >>
> >>                                  
>                             -K. Mullis
> >>
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> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Sefick
> 
> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about
> things that are
> so little or so large that all they really do for us is
> puff us up and
> make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not
> exhausted the
> annoying little problems of being mammals.
> 
>            
>            
>         -K. Mullis
> 
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>