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metScanR (version 1.2.3)

Find, Map, and Gather Environmental Data and Metadata

Description

A tool for locating, mapping, and gathering environmental data and metadata, worldwide. Users can search for and filter metadata from > 157,000 environmental monitoring stations among 219 countries/territories and >20 networks/organizations via elevation, location, active dates, elements measured (e.g., temperature, precipitation), country, network, and/or known identifier. Future updates to the package will allow the user to obtain datasets from stations within the database.

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install.packages('metScanR')

Monthly Downloads

64

Version

1.2.3

License

GPL-3

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Maintainer

Josh Roberti

Last Published

October 16th, 2019

Functions in metScanR (1.2.3)

siteFinder

Filter environmental monitoring stations (wrapper)
getStation

return metadata for selected envionmental station(s)
metScanR_terms

Environmental metadata terms used within metScanR_DB
metScanR_DB

Worldwide, Environmental Monitoring Station metadata
updateDatabase

Update the metScanR database to the latest version.
mapResults

Map environmental monitoring stations
mapSiteFinder

Map environmental monitoring stations
getCountry

Filter environmental monitoring stations by country
getTerritory

Filter environmental monitoring stations by state/territory
getElevation

Filter environmental monitoring stations by elevation
getDates

Filter environmental monitoring stations by active date(s)
getVars

Filter environmental monitoring stations by reported elements
getNetwork

Filter environmental monitoring stations by network
getId

Filter environmental monitoring stations by identifier type
dbLog

metScanR_DB Update Log
getNearby

Filter environmental monitoring stations by POI