Reads current rating table for an active USGS streamgage from NWISweb. Data is retrieved from https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis.
readNWISrating(siteNumber, type = "base", convertType = TRUE)character USGS site number. This is usually an 8 digit number
character can be "base", "corr", or "exsa"
logical, defaults to TRUE. If TRUE, the function will convert the data to dates, datetimes,
numerics based on a standard algorithm. If false, everything is returned as a character
A data frame. If type is "base," then the columns are
INDEP, typically the gage height, in feet; DEP, typically the streamflow,
in cubic feet per second; and STOR, where "*" indicates that the pair are
a fixed point of the rating curve. If type is "exsa," then an
additional column, SHIFT, is included that indicates the current shift in
the rating for that value of INDEP. If type is "corr," then the
columns are INDEP, typically the gage height, in feet; CORR, the correction
for that value; and CORRINDEP, the corrected value for CORR.
If type is "base," then the data frame has an attribute called "RATING"
that describes the rating curve is included.
There are also several useful attributes attached to the data frame:
| Name | Type | Description |
| url | character | The url used to generate the data |
| queryTime | POSIXct | The time the data was returned |
| comment | character | Header comments from the RDB file |
| siteInfo | data.frame | A data frame containing information on the requested sites |
| RATING | character | Rating information |
# NOT RUN {
site_id <- '01594440'
# }
# NOT RUN {
data <- readNWISrating(site_id, "base")
attr(data, "RATING")
# }
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