Daily mean streamflow for the Red River of the North
at Fargo, North Dakota, streamgage 0504000, from October 1, 1949, to
September 30, 2010.
Usage
q05054000LT
Arguments
Format
A dataframe containing 22,280 observations of daily mean
streamflow. There are four variables shown in the following table.
Name
Type
Description
staid
factor
USGS Station identification number
val
numeric
Daily mean streamflow
dates
Date
Date of daily mean
Details
Streamflow data for U.S. Geological Survey streamgage 05054000, Red
River of the North at Fargo, North Dakota, are provided for the
vignette. The vignette provides the code (commented out) to import
the data from the USGS, but such a large retrieval can timeout, so
the data are provided with the package.
References
U.S. Geological Survey, 2014, National Water Information System (NWISWeb):
U.S. Geological Survey database, accessed November 18, 2014, at
http://waterservices.usgs.gov/.