waterml

R package for getting and analyzing data from any WaterOneFlow web service on any Hydroserver.

The WaterML R package provides access to the Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information System (HIS) HydroServers as a means for storing and managing data. Using the WaterML R package, the user can retrieve and analyze data from HydroServers of multiple organizations that are listed in the CUAHSI Water Data Center catalog (http://hiscentral.cuahsi.org). The package provides support for four core web methods defined by the HydroServer WaterOneFlow web services specification. The WaterML R package supports reading data from WaterML version 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0, accessing the WaterOneFlow 1.0 and 1.1 SOAP web services, and retrieving data from custom WaterML REST web services or from a local WaterML file. The package is published on CRAN on http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/WaterML . Any R user can install it using the “install packages” option in R.