Installation

Get the stable version from CRAN:

install.packages('soilDB', dependencies = TRUE)

Get the development version from GitHub:

remotes::install_github("ncss-tech/soilDB", dependencies = FALSE)

Website

• CRAN Package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=soilDB
• Package Manual: http://ncss-tech.github.io/soilDB/
• Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology (AQP) Project: http://ncss-tech.github.io/AQP/

Citation

## To cite soilDB in publications use:
## 
##   Beaudette, D., Skovlin, J., Roecker, S., Brown, A. (2025). soilDB:
##   Soil Database Interface. R package version 2.8.9.
##   <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=soilDB>
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Manual{,
##     title = {soilDB: Soil Database Interface},
##     author = {Dylan Beaudette and Jay Skovlin and Stephen Roecker and Andrew Brown},
##     note = {R package version 2.8.9},
##     url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=soilDB},
##     year = {2025},
##   }

soilDB 2.8.10

Functions by Data Source

• Soil Data Access (SDA)
  • fetchSDA
  • fetchSDA_spatial
  • SDA_query
  • SDA_spatialQuery
  • “SSURGO On Demand” Queries
    • get_SDA_hydric
    • get_SDA_interpretation
    • get_SDA_muaggatt
    • get_SDA_pmgroupname
    • get_SDA_property
    • get_SDA_coecoclass
    • get_SDA_metrics
    • get_SDA_cosurfmorph
• SSURGO Web Soil Survey
  • downloadSSURGO
  • createSSURGO
• SSURGO Local Geodatabases
  • fetchGDB
• ROSETTA
  • ROSETTA
• SSURGO/KSSL via SoilWeb
  • fetchKSSL
  • fetchOSD
  • siblings
  • OSDquery
  • seriesExtent
  • taxaExtent
  • mukey.wcs
  • ISSR800.wcs
• NASIS WWW interface
  • parseWebReport
  • fetchNASISWebReport
• SCAN/SNOTEL
  • fetchSCAN
  • SCAN_SNOTEL_metadata
• Henry Mount Soil and Water Database
  • fetchHenry
• NASIS local database
  • fetchNASIS
  • dbConnectNASIS (alias NASIS())
  • dbQueryNASIS
  • createStaticNASIS
• SoilGrids
  • fetchSoilGrids

Miscellaneous Functions

• estimateSTR
• STRplot
• KSSL_VG_model
• simplifyFragmentData
• simplifyColorData
• uncode
• code
• get_NOAA_GHCND

Tutorials and Demonstrations

• fetchKSSL
• SDA_query
• fetchOSD
• SCAN/SNOTEL Data

Related Packages

• aqp
• sharpshootR
• SoilTaxonomy